Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL on early Spectre v2 microcodes

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Fri Jan 26 2018 - 07:27:50 EST


On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 13:16 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 16:57 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > We don't refuse to load the affected microcodes; just refuse to use SPEC_CTRL
> > if they're detected.
>
> Hi David,
>
> Are we sure those microcodes instability are only related to SPEC_CTRL?

See v4 :)

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