On 21.10.2020 17:23, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 03:51:18PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >> The set of systems affected by XSA-345 would have been smaller is we had >> this in place already: When the processor is capable of dealing with >> mismatched cacheability, there's no extra work we need to carry out. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > > Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
Thanks. > I guess it's not worth using the alternative framework to patch this > up at boot in order to avoid the call in the first place? It being non-trivial (afaict) in cases like this one makes me think that the price to do so would be higher than the gain to be had. But I might be wrong ... Jan