From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: Ongoing/future speculative mitigation work Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:17:11 +0100 Message-ID: <0fa1c7a6-d3bc-5ea3-ae65-f6f24b303134@citrix.com> References: <0508ae79c8d74f6ebb7d1b239b2c3f0e428aca6b.camel@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0508ae79c8d74f6ebb7d1b239b2c3f0e428aca6b.camel@suse.com> Content-Language: en-GB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Dario Faggioli , Xen-devel List Cc: Juergen Gross , Lars Kurth , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , Anthony Liguori , Sergey Dyasli , George Dunlap , Ross Philipson , Daniel Kiper , Konrad Wilk , Marek Marczykowski , Martin Pohlack , Julien Grall , "Dannowski, Uwe" , Jan Beulich , Boris Ostrovsky , =?UTF-8?Q?Mihai_Don=c8=9bu?= , Matt Wilson , Joao Martins , "Woodhouse, David" , 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