Re: [Xen-devel] CPU flags disappear on Spectre enabled host

2018-07-20 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 20/07/18 10:58, Olaf Hering wrote: > Am Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:38:30 +0100 > schrieb Andrew Cooper : > >> On 20/07/18 10:21, Olaf Hering wrote: >>> Is the loss of cpuflags intentional? >> Yes, but they've got nothing to do with Spectre. > Thank you, Andrew. After a few more reboots I figured

Re: [Xen-devel] CPU flags disappear on Spectre enabled host

2018-07-20 Thread Olaf Hering
Am Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:38:30 +0100 schrieb Andrew Cooper : > On 20/07/18 10:21, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Is the loss of cpuflags intentional? > Yes, but they've got nothing to do with Spectre. Thank you, Andrew. After a few more reboots I figured that booting without any cmdline option makes no

Re: [Xen-devel] CPU flags disappear on Spectre enabled host

2018-07-20 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 20/07/18 10:21, Olaf Hering wrote: > On a host that is booted with the following command line, certain cpu flags > disappear in xen-4.9 and later: > > (XEN) Command line: loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all console=com1 com1=57600 > cpuid=ibrsb,stibp,ibpb,ssbd

[Xen-devel] CPU flags disappear on Spectre enabled host

2018-07-20 Thread Olaf Hering
On a host that is booted with the following command line, certain cpu flags disappear in xen-4.9 and later: (XEN) Command line: loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all console=com1 com1=57600 cpuid=ibrsb,stibp,ibpb,ssbd spec-ctrl=ibrs,ibpb,ssbd,bti-thunk=retpoline xpti=yes On my test system the