Meltdown/Spectre mitigation for 4.15 and beyond

Posted Jan 19, 2018 12:43 UTC (Fri) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Meltdown/Spectre mitigation for 4.15 and beyond by dwmw2
Parent article: Meltdown/Spectre mitigation for 4.15 and beyond

Unfortunately, the Intel documentation is quite abstract. It does not tell us what these things actually do (probably because that's different for different generations); instead it tries to specify how to use them and/or what guarantees these things give (but even that is not very clear).