[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v5 08/11] TAAv5 8

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
Message-ID <20191021203338.uhkjj2ixa36ysdvm@treble>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 01:01:39PM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:54:29PM +0200, speck for Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 17-10-19 17:14:07, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Let me know if there are any questions.
> > 
> > is there any list of CPUs that would benefit from tsx=auto compared to
> > tsx=on? In other words do we really need both?
> 
> Below is the list of TAA affected CPUs that will get TSX_CTRL MSR.
> 
> +----------------------------+------------------+------------+
> |            Name            |  Family / model  |  Stepping  |
> +============================+==================+============+
> | Whiskey Lake (ULT refresh) |      06_8E       |    0xC     |
> +----------------------------+------------------+------------+
> |    2nd gen Cascade Lake    |      06_55       |    6, 7    |
> +----------------------------+------------------+------------+
> |       Coffee Lake R        |      06_9E       |    0xD     |
> +----------------------------+------------------+------------+
> 
> tsx=auto on these CPUs will disable TSX.
> tsx=on will keep TSX enabled.

Just to clarify, is this list identical to the list of CPUs which are
vulnerable to TAA and have MDS_NO=0?

-- 
Josh
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