Re: cpu_no_speculation omissions?

From: Rich Felker
Date: Thu Jul 26 2018 - 11:56:57 EST


On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 04:18:42PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 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.

Does anyone have a complete list of pre-speculation Atom models? Mine
is one of the few 64-bit ones, but there are lots of 32-bit Atoms that
PTI would hit hard.

Rich