From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Turning on DOITM at last
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:01:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e739bc7-4252-4f64-90ab-c68fc5cc746c@gmail.com> (raw)
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Is it time to go ahead and turn on DOITM?
Here's my reasoning:
- If it doesn't do anything, it's a harmless no-op.
- If it does something, then that something needed to be done to
protect code that handles secrets, such as crypto code.
- The overhead of switching it on and off is too high, so it's best
to just leave it on all the time.
- Even people who don't care about speculative execution
vulnerabilities, because they only run trusted code on a particular
server, still likely need secure cryptography.
Xen already turned it on in the past.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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2026-07-18 17:01 Demi Marie Obenour [this message]
2026-07-20 11:55 ` Dave Hansen
2026-07-20 16:29 ` Eric Biggers
2026-07-20 17:01 ` Andrew Cooper
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