Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/feature: Detect the x86 feature Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier

From: Woodhouse, David
Date: Fri Jan 12 2018 - 07:53:40 EST


On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:32 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:32:19PM -0800, Ashok Raj wrote:
> > cpuid ax=0x7, return rdx bit 26 to indicate presence of both
> > IA32_SPEC_CTRL(MSR 0x48) and IA32_PRED_CMD(MSR 0x49)
>
> So why do we need two X86_FEATURE flags then?

AMD has only the latter and enumerates them differently.

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