* Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:24:11PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > How about:
> > CONFIG_SPECTRE1_WORKAROUND_INDEX_MASK
> > CONFIG_SPECTRE1_WORKAROUND_LOAD_FENCE
>
> INSTRUCTION_FENCE if anything. LFENCE for Intel (and now also for AMD as
> per 0592b0bce169) is a misnomer, IFENCE would be a better name for it.
Btw., we should probably propagate that naming to most places and only point it
out in comments/documentation that Intel/AMD calls this CPU functionality
'LFENCE'
for historic reasons and that the opcode got stolen for the Spectre fixes.
Thanks,
Ingo
