On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:11 PM, David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk> wrote: > > > This is a mitigation for the 'variant 2' attack described in > > > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > > > > Ok, I don't love the patches, but I see nothing horribly wrong here > > either, and I assume the performance impact of this is pretty minimal. > > > > Thomas? I'm obviously doing rc7 today without these, but I assume the > > x86 maintainers are resigned to this all. And yes, we'll have at least > > an rc8 this release.. > > I'm definitely resigned to them, and with these patches being disclosed so > late > we don't have any good choices left, so a tentative: > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Just doing the last polishing on that. I'll add your ack
