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From: "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on fixed Intel processors
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:44:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1516733089.9521.162.camel@amazon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <736fa9c9-d651-b6ef-802c-d02a27c28ab9@intel.com>


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On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 10:41 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/23/2018 08:52 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > When they advertise the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR and it has the RDCL_NO
> > bit set, they don't need KPTI either.
> 
> Also, I hate to ask...  Have you tested this patch?

Nope. I deliberately haven't implemented IBRS_ALL because I have no
suitable hardware for that and there are some non-trivial parts, but
this one really *should* be trivial so seemed OK to do without
hardware.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-23 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-23 16:52 [PATCH v2 0/5] Basic Speculation Control feature support David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:43   ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-24  1:23     ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-24  1:28       ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-24  8:13         ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD " David Woodhouse
2018-01-24  8:39   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-24  8:40     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:27   ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-23 18:31     ` Greg KH
2018-01-23 18:48       ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-23 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on fixed Intel processors David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:12   ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-24  1:21     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:40   ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-24  1:27     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-23 18:41   ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-23 18:44     ` Woodhouse, David [this message]
2018-01-23 18:45   ` Alan Cox
2018-01-23 19:02     ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-23 20:45       ` Alan Cox
2018-01-23 20:38     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-23 20:50     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 16:25     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 17:07       ` Alan Cox
2018-01-24 17:42         ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 18:40           ` Alan Cox
2018-01-24 18:59             ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-24 19:37             ` David Woodhouse

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