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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:43:40 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:26:53PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> If the process has multiple threads running on different cpus,

I'm talking about issuing the barrier in set_dumpable(). What threads on
multiple CPUs?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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