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SubjectRe: [RFC,05/10] x86/speculation: Add basic IBRS support infrastructure
* Borislav Petkov (bp@suse.de) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:30:36PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Indeed, it's only for this weird case where you suddenly need to change
> > it.
>
> No, there's more:
>
> .name = "Broadwell-noTSX",
> .name = "Haswell-noTSX",

Haswell came out and we made the CPU definition, and then got a
microcode update that removed the feature.

So the common feature of noTSX and IBRS is that they're the only two
cases where a CPU has released and then the flags have changed later.

Dave

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> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

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