x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment
authorTim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:33:29 +0000 (19:33 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 May 2019 17:19:35 +0000 (19:19 +0200)
commit 8eb729b77faf83ac4c1f363a9ad68d042415f24c upstream.

"Reduced Data Speculation" is an obsolete term. The correct new name is
"Speculative store bypass disable" - which is abbreviated into SSBD.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com>
Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185003.593893901@linutronix.de
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h

index 2d8788a..28f3191 100644 (file)
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ struct thread_info {
 #define TIF_SIGPENDING         2       /* signal pending */
 #define TIF_NEED_RESCHED       3       /* rescheduling necessary */
 #define TIF_SINGLESTEP         4       /* reenable singlestep on user return*/
-#define TIF_SSBD               5       /* Reduced data speculation */
+#define TIF_SSBD               5       /* Speculative store bypass disable */
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU                6       /* syscall emulation active */
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT      7       /* syscall auditing active */
 #define TIF_SECCOMP            8       /* secure computing */