On 11/19/18 3:16 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > So you may want to ask why it wasn't written as your "any" vs "any" email:
Presumably because the authors really and truly meant what they said. I was not being as careful in my wording as they were. :) There is nothing in the spec that says that STIBP disables branch prediction itself, or that it keeps a thread from influencing *itself*.

