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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on fixed Intel
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On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > When they advertise the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR and it has the RDCL_NO
> > bit set, they don't need KPTI either.
> 
> Do they exist today? And do we have documentation for that new MSR already?

Scratch the seconds question. It's in that spec mitigations PDF.

The first question stands.

Thanks,

	tglx