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SubjectRE: [PATCH 2/2] x86/speculation: Support "Enhanced IBRS" on future CPUs
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> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:42:24 +0000, "Van De Ven, Arjan" said:
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> > the guest is not the problem; guests obviously will already honor if Enhanced
> > IBRS is enumerated. The problem is mixed migration pools where the
> hypervisor
> > may need to decide to not pass this enumeration through to the guest.
>
> For bonus points: What should happen to a VM that is live migrated from one
> hypervisor to another, and the hypervisors have different IBRS support?

Doctor Doctor it hurts when I do this....

Migration tends to only work between HV's that are relatively homogeneous, that's nothing new... folks who run clouds or bigger pools know this obviously.


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