Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 10:32:57 EST


On 04/01/2018 16:29, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> Adding that for KVM is in the Linux IBRS patch set that I've seen.
> Didn't we already have a conversation about how the Linux patch set
> does it as an atomically-switched MSR while you've done it manually in
> Xen because it's faster?

I'm also doing it manually in the RHEL versions of the KVM patches, for
what it's worth.

Paolo