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RE: [PATCH] ARM: Implement Clang's SLS mitigation

From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-12 10:44:09
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quoted
on -mharden-sls=all, which mitigates the straight-line speculation
vulnerability, or more commonly known as Spectre, Meldown.
                 ^ I would drop "or" here
                                                  ^ drop comma,
                                                    use "and",
                                                    typo: "Meltdown"

Although, is that a fair statement? SLS is not called Spectre or
Meltdown by ARM, it is a speculative processor vulnerabilty. It
might just be better to drop eerything after the first comma (although
maybe that is just being pedantic).
or replace with:
   (speculative execution of the instruction following some unconditional jumps).

Which will save a lot of people looking up what it means.

	David

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