Re: cpu_no_speculation omissions?

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Jul 26 2018 - 10:18:47 EST


On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 03:29:53PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The pre Silvermont atom cores are in order. When I did the original
> > list I didn't bother with all the 32bit cores as we didn't have any
> > 32bit mitigations then.
>
> Now that 32bit PTI is in tip, I believe refresh of that list would be
> justified. CCing Joerg.

Agreed, PTI for x86-32 is in -tip now and will likely make it into
v4.19. In-order cores (which should not be not affected by Meltdown)
should be on the list, otherwise they will get a huge performance hit.


Regards,

Joerg