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_.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs