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

Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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.

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Jiri Kosina
Director, SUSE Labs Core
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