[MODERATED] Re: [patch 3/8] MDS basics 3

Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 01:44:09PM +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Subject: [patch 3/8] x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
> From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> 
> Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear
> mechanism on exit to user space and add the call into
> prepare_exit_to_usermode() right before actually returning.

This is missing the NMI exit case.

-Andi
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