Re: [PATCH 3/8] kvm: vmx: pass MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL and MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD down to the guest

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 09:07:05 EST


On 1/10/2018 5:20 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
* a simple specification that does "IBRS=1 blocks indirect branch
prediction altogether" would actually satisfy the specification just as
well, and it would be nice to know if that's what the processor actually
does.

it doesn't exactly, not for all.

so you really do need to write ibrs again.