Re: [SPAM] Re: [patch V5 09/14] MDS basics 9

On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, speck for Dave Hansen wrote:

> On 3/1/19 2:58 PM, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > So the thing is that newer steppings are fixed vs. all of the issues. I
> > surely hope that these have MDS_NO set in MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.
> > 
> > If that's not the case, then we'll end up with stepping specific quirks
> > which would be an utter mess.
> > 
> > Can anyone @Intel please answer this question?
> 
> MDS_NO will be set on all unaffected processor steppings.  We should not
> have to do any stepping-specific tweaks in the kernel.

Thanks for that info! That spares me to supress a non CoC compliant tirade :)