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Re: [PATCH] x86/cet: Support cet=<bool> on the command line


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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH] x86/cet: Support cet=<bool> on the command line

On 28/04/2022 11:13, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 28.04.2022 10:52, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> @@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ CET is incompatible with 32bit PV guests.  If any CET 
>> sub-options are active,
>>  they will override the `pv=32` boolean to `false`.  Backwards compatibility
>>  can be maintained with the pv-shim mechanism.
>>  
>> +*   An unqualified boolean is shorthand for setting all suboptions at once.
> You're the native speaker, but I wonder whether there an "a" missing
> before "shorthand".

I was going to say it was correct as is, but it turn out both are
acceptable.  "shorthand" is both a countable and uncountable quantity,
and both "sound" right.

~Andrew

 


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