On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 06:11:05PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote: > This blog entry is intended as a follow-up to the original entry in > January regarding Spectre/Meltdown and the proposed changes to address > them in the upcoming 2.11.1 release. > > This entry is meant to accompany the 2.11.1 release (planned for > 2018-02-14) and document how to make use of the new options for > various architectures. > > Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> > Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > Cc: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsi...@gmail.com> > Cc: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> > Cc: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> > Cc: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > > The pseries/s390 bits have gotten some initial review (thanks > Suraj/Christian), > but it can definitely use some additional review on the x86 side of things. > > Also, Peter if think anything extra should to be mentioned on the ARM side > just > let me know what to add. > > .../2018-02-14-qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update.md | 180 > +++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 180 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 _posts/2018-02-14-qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update.md > > diff --git a/_posts/2018-02-14-qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update.md > b/_posts/2018-02-14-qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update.md > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..7cdea59 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/_posts/2018-02-14-qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update.md > @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
> +Please note that, as mentioned in the previous blog post, QEMU/KVM generally > +has the same requirements as other unpriviledged processes running on the > +host WRT Spectre/Meltdown mitigation. Is this actually still considered accurate wrt the host QEMU ? I was under the believe that life is more complicated for QEMU/KVM wrt Spectre and that it will require more protection than other unpriv processes on the host in some cases. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
