Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 11 2018 - 07:54:01 EST



* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Additionally, x86 maintainers: is there a particular reason this (or
> any functionally equivalent patch) isn't upstream yet? As indicated
> before, I had not been able to find any discussion, and hence I
> see no reason why this is a patch we effectively carry privately in
> our distro branches (and likely other distros do so too).

The patch was merged 6 weeks ago and is now upstream:

71c208dd54ab: x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend

Thanks,

Ingo