From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: Ongoing/future speculative mitigation work Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:13:01 +0100 Message-ID: <5c251189-cfb7-a36a-5a33-fd661771c9c0@citrix.com> References: <7079d0ee-a8ef-e164-12d9-8e3bfef81491@citrix.com> <03e84c44-2c33-b00f-bdfc-3c6b57123bfb@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Tamas K Lengyel Cc: mpohlack@amazon.de, Julien Grall , Jan Beulich , joao.m.martins@oracle.com, Stefano Stabellini , Daniel Kiper , =?UTF-8?Q?Marek_Marczykowski-G=c3=b3recki?= , aliguori@amazon.com, uwed@amazon.de, Lars Kurth , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , ross.philipson@oracle.com, George Dunlap , Dario Faggioli , Matt Wilson , Boris Ostrovsky , JGross@suse.com, sergey.dyasli@citrix.com, Wei Liu , 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