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

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:10:33PM +0200, speck for Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, speck for Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > Since all (or most?) modern Intel CPUs are vulnerable to TAA, defaulting 
> > to tsx=auto would effectively be the same as defaulting to tsx=off, 
> > right?  How does this help with regressions?
> 
> The mitigation is only needed on CPUs where verw doesn't have the buffer 
> clearing semantics.

Can you elaborate?  I have no idea what you're trying to say and how it
relates to my question :-)

-- 
Josh