On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Tim Chen <tim.c.c...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> Speculation on Skylake and later requires these patches ("dynamic IBRS")
> be used instead of retpoline[1].
Can somebody explain this part?
I was assuming that retpoline would work around this issue on all uarchs.
This seems to say "retpoline does nothing on Skylake+"
Linus
