Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM

On Thu 23-08-18 12:38:33, Andi Kleen wrote:

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There are people who care about L1TF mitigations. I am not going to question their motivation. In any case a hint how to make the mitigation active again sounds more useful than something that sounds as scary as "you are vulnerable".

FWIW an early version of these patches automatically limited the available memory, but Linus pointed out that people likely prefer their memory.

Nobody is questioning that. The point is to give them a hint on how to make the mitigation active again without going to call for help. The message does tell them how to _enable_ it and point them to the documentation on how to _decide_.