On 9/27/18 8:28 PM, Michal Soltys wrote:
> That's not precisely like that - spectre & friends workarounds can be
> trivially disabled (e.g.: pti, spectre_v2, spec_store_bypass_disable,
> l1tf) - bringing "old" nominal performance back (whether good/bad idea,
> that of course depends on what/how you run your linux on for what
> purpose). Not mentioning cpus that will eventually come not needing
> those workarounds.
> 
> So in this context audit=0 is a very viable thing - if one (and that's
> probalby crushing majority of users) doesn't need this feature (directly
> or indirectly).

Even if you disable the mitigations, the fast path we're talking about
here was simply deleted from linux.git -- it doesn't exist anymore,
zero, zilch, squat, nada.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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