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

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.