Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Sep 10 2018 - 07:01:40 EST


On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> That looks much more palatable. One missing piece is the sysfs
> mitigation file for spectre v2. That should reflect STIPB state as well.

FWIW, we're missing a bit more in that area, namely RSB stuffing on
context switch, IBRS (even through only around fw) and IBPB; those are
only signalled in dmesg during bootup.

Want to add all this stuff there?

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs