Re: Spectre & Meltdown patching in relation to Spectrum Protect

2018-01-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
Content preview: Hi Stefan, My understanding is that Meltdown and Spectre took advantage of having the kernel in the same address space as each user-space process. Previously this was done to reduce the number of cache and TLB misses around system calls, but at least for Linux, the

Re: Spectre & Meltdown patching in relation to Spectrum Protect

2018-01-23 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Stefan, IBM is still evaluating this. Once there is something to share, I will post it. Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 01/23/2018 02:29:17 AM: > From: Stefan Folkerts > To: