Folks, I've merged the V8 series with the polishing done by Borislav into the master branch (based on 5.7-rc2) of the speck git repository at: cvs.ou.linutronix.de:linux/speck/linux The commits are considered stable from now on. Any further tweaks need to go on top. The stable branches linux-5.6.y, linux-5.4.y, linux-4.19.y and linux-4.14.y have been updated with backports. Kernels prior to 4.14 are left as an exercise to the members of the kernel necrophilia cult as usual. A tarball with git bundles is attached. The subject line of this mail is a reference to the following part of the documentation: Executing RDRAND, RDSEED or EGETKEY will delay memory accesses from other logical processors that miss their core caches, with an impact similar to legacy locked cache-line-split accesses. IOW, yet another DoS tool. Oh well... Thanks, tglx