svn commit: r355436 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 x86/x86

Eric van Gyzen eric at vangyzen.net
Fri Dec 6 14:58:57 UTC 2019



> On Dec 6, 2019, at 4:36 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 21:43, Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Author: scottl
>> Date: Fri Dec  6 02:43:05 2019
>> New Revision: 355436
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355436
>> 
>> Log:
>>  Move the mds, irbs, and ssb mitigation knobs into machdep.mitigations.
> 
> If we're moving them and adding backwards-compatibility scaffolding we
> really should correct the sense of the sysctls at the same time.

I was just going to suggest that.  For some, 0 is secure; for others, 1 is secure.  Since they’re under “mitigations,” I think 1 should consistently mean “mitigated.”

Eric


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