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

[Scott Long]

I’m not opposed to the idea, but making any change invites a bike shed on
naming, and making no change at all invites a bike shed on naming, and
honestly the name doesn’t matter to me at this point.  I encourage you and
Ed to own this.

Scott


> On Dec 6, 2019, at 6:58 AM, Eric van Gyzen <eric at vangyzen.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> 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