Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.11-rc7

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Feb 07 2021 - 13:41:51 EST


On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:32 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My understanding is that AMD has documented support for Shadow Stacks:
>
> https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/24592.pdf
>
> But has not yet released any documentation about IBT. IBT seems to be
> Intel-only, at least in the short term. There may be more, but the
> "Tiger Lake" CPUs are the only ones I know of off the top of my head
> that are in the wild:

Ahh, ok. I clearly didn't look at the details, just the overview of
"supports CET".

Linus