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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: tedheadster <tedheadster@gmail.com>,
	whiteheadm@acm.org, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:04:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180213210448.GB6569@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180208205240.0c53631f@alans-desktop>

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On Thu 2018-02-08 20:52:40, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Also worth nothing that the difference between the cpu and memory
> > > speeds is much lower - so far fewer instructions could be speculatively
> > > executed while waiting a cache miss.
> 
> But they also have more instructions that take a lot of clocks and are
> easier to stall - eg by doing things like opening and mmapping
> a framebuffer and then doing a floating point double store to it
> misaligned.
> 
> Meltdown we can at least reasonably test but spectre is hard.

Do you have pointer for simple meltdown test?

I've got https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown.git but could not get it to
work even on machines that should be vulnerable.
									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-13 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-03  4:52 [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2 tedheadster
2018-02-03  7:37 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-06 18:33   ` tedheadster
2018-02-06 19:02     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-06 19:10       ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-06 19:13         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-02-06 19:17           ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-06 19:24             ` tedheadster
2018-02-06 20:45               ` tedheadster
2018-02-06 20:54                 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-06 22:11                   ` tedheadster
2018-02-07  8:18                     ` Ondrej Zary
2018-02-08 13:49                       ` Alan Cox
2018-02-08 15:22                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-02-08 17:02                           ` David Laight
2018-02-08 17:27                             ` tedheadster
2018-02-08 21:50                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-02-09  8:41                               ` Ondrej Zary
2018-02-13 21:04                                 ` Pavel Machek
2018-02-15  9:53                                   ` What was last kernel that booted on hardware XY? database was Re: [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2A Pavel Machek
2018-02-15 13:16                                     ` tedheadster
2018-02-17 21:16                                       ` Pavel Machek
2018-02-17 22:39                                         ` tedheadster
2018-02-23  8:07                                           ` Pavel Machek
2018-02-08 17:50                             ` [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2 tedheadster
2018-02-08 20:52                               ` Alan Cox
2018-02-13 21:04                                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-02-13 23:45                                   ` Alan Cox
2018-02-08 21:16                           ` Alan Cox
2018-02-08 21:57                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-02-06 21:59                 ` Alan Cox

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