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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:08:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180219100817.GO25201@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1519032552.7876.55.camel@infradead.org>

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:29:12AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 10:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > I did not update or otherwise change packages while I was bisecting; the
> > machine is:
> > 
> > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family      : 6
> > model           : 62
> > model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
> > stepping        : 4
> > microcode       : 0x428
> 
> That's IVX with a microcode that doesn't *have* IBRS/IBPB. I don't
> think there's a publicly available microcode that does; I assume you
> didn't have one and build it into your kernel for early loading, and
> thus you really weren't even using IBRS here? The code never even gets
> patched in?

I wasn't using IRBS afaik. I was bisceting tip/master before the
IBRS/firmware patches (not sure they're in now or not).

No fancy ucode setup, I think I have ucode image in the initrd, but that
would be same for all kernels.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-19 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-10 23:39 [PATCH v2 0/6] Spectre v2 updates David Woodhouse
2018-02-10 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] x86/speculation: Update Speculation Control microcode blacklist David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 12:08   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-12  9:50   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] " Darren Kenny
2018-02-12 14:16   ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-12 14:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-10 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Revert "x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()" David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 12:09   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-13  8:58   ` tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-13  9:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-13 11:28       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-13 13:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-13 13:38           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-13 15:26           ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Add <asm/msr-index.h> dependency tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-15  0:28           ` tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-10 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range() David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 12:09   ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(), by always inlining iterator helper methods tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-13  8:58   ` tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-10 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] X86/nVMX: Properly set spec_ctrl and pred_cmd before merging MSRs David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 12:10   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-13  8:59   ` tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-10 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM/nVMX: Set the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS if we have a valid L02 MSR bitmap David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 10:19   ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]     ` <1518345844.3677.365.camel@amazon.co.uk>
2018-02-11 10:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-11 12:10   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-13  8:59   ` tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-10 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 11:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-11 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Spectre v2 updates Ingo Molnar
2018-02-11 15:19 ` [PATCH v2.1] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 18:50   ` [PATCH] x86/speculation: Clean up various Spectre related details Ingo Molnar
2018-02-11 19:25     ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-11 19:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-12 15:30         ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-13  8:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-11 19:19   ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-12  5:59     ` afzal mohammed
2018-02-12 16:30       ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-12 10:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-12 11:50       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 12:27         ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-12 13:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-13  7:58           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-12 12:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-12 16:13       ` Dave Hansen
2018-02-12 16:58         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-13  7:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-14  1:49             ` Tim Chen
2018-02-14  8:56               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-14  8:57                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-14 19:20                 ` Tim Chen
2018-02-14 23:19                   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-15  2:01                     ` Tim Chen
2018-02-14  9:31               ` [PATCH] watchdog: hpwdt: Remove spinlock acquire and BIOS calls from NMI context Ingo Molnar
2018-02-14  9:38                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-14 10:39                   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-14  9:44                 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-14 18:13                   ` Jerry Hoemann
2018-02-14 23:17                     ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-15 17:44                       ` Jerry Hoemann
2018-02-15 19:02                         ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-15 19:48                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-16 18:44     ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware Tim Chen
2018-02-16 19:16       ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-16 23:46         ` Tim Chen
2018-02-17 10:26           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-19  9:20             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-19  9:29               ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-19  9:39                 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-19  9:44                   ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-19 10:08                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-02-19  9:36               ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-12  8:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Spectre v2 updates Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-13  7:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-19 10:50 [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 10:29 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for David Woodhouse

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