For your information: Thread on LKML (Linux kernel), related to this problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/18/218
Debian bug, requesting that glibc add a blacklist to disable use of HLE and RTM in libpthread to protect users running outdated processor microcode: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762195 I am also going to modify Debian intel-microcode behavior in response to this bug, but I will wait until we have the complete picture of how this should be addressed at the various levels, first. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1370352 Title: [Feature] Intel new CPU microcode 20140913 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1370352/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs