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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: vmx: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
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On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 12:53 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> > I believe it does. Guest kernel is protected from any guest userspace
> > predictions learned before IBRS was last set to 1 in *any* mode,
> > including host.
>
> Hmm, you're probably right.
>
> I would love to know what awful hack Intel did that resulted in these semantics.

I am not convinced I ever really want to know. I just want it all to go
away in a future CPU with a SPCTR_NO bit in IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.
(Not the IBRS_ALL interim hack).

I think it's a mixture of ongoing checking, and a barrier. And perhaps
varying proportions of each, in different CPU generations. By defining
it thus, they can actually implement it *either* way.[unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature]
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