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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, sjitindarsingh@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, bp@suse.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, jpoimboe@kernel.org,
	daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com,
	pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Mitigate eIBRS PBRSB predictions with WRMSR
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:18:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yz6PUJqThY9NPHRs@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMp9eThzv+5UBPtm77nvD_b48hHD7O1QLni7a+x9zAPicFk4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:46:12PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:

>                 rmb();

Since we're not doing memory ordering but speculation hardening, this is
completely the wrong way to spell LFENCE. Please use barrier_nospec() in
those cases.

And as has already been pointed out, there's one of those just two lines
down already.

Also, what Andrew said.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-06  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-05 22:02 Suraj Jitindar Singh
2022-10-05 22:29 ` Jim Mattson
2022-10-06  8:25   ` David Laight
2022-10-06 20:27     ` pawan.kumar.gupta
2022-10-05 23:24 ` Jim Mattson
2022-10-05 23:45   ` Pawan Gupta
2022-10-05 23:46 ` Jim Mattson
2022-10-06  0:26   ` Daniel Sneddon
2022-10-06  1:28     ` Jim Mattson
2022-10-06  8:18   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-10-06  2:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2022-10-07  1:44   ` pawan.kumar.gupta
2022-10-07  1:54 ` Pawan Gupta

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