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From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre
 v2 STIBP mitigation
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > That looks much more palatable. One missing piece is the sysfs 
> > mitigation file for spectre v2. That should reflect STIPB state as well.
> 
> FWIW, we're missing a bit more in that area, namely RSB stuffing on 
> context switch, IBRS (even through only around fw) and IBPB; those are 
> only signalled in dmesg during bootup.

Nah, IBPB is actuall there, sorry. So I'll add reporting of STIBP + fixup 
the missing reporting of RSB_CTXSW for v6.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs