On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:16:54PM +0000, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> You'd still want a RETPOLINE_AMD flag to enable that lfence; it's not
> just K8.
I think you're forgetting that we set K8 on everything >= K8 on AMD. So
this:
+ if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD)
+ setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD);
can just as well be dropped and X86_FEATURE_K8 used everywhere.
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