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Comment by walterbell

Does this mean AMD hyperthreading has a performance + security advantage over currently shipping Intel processors?

Edit: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/security-updates

> 8/14/18 – Updated: As in the case with Meltdown, we believe our processors are not susceptible to these new speculative execution attack variants: L1 Terminal Fault – SGX (also known as Foreshadow) CVE 2018-3615, L1 Terminal Fault – OS/SMM (also known as Foreshadow-NG) CVE 2018-3620, and L1 Terminal Fault – VMM (also known as Foreshadow-NG) CVE 2018-3646, due to our hardware paging architecture protections. We are advising customers running AMD EPYC™ processors in their data centers, including in virtualized environments, to not implement Foreshadow-related software mitigations for their AMD platforms.

For those on AMD platforms, how do you disable software mitigations for Foreshadow? Is this automatically done by browsers, operating systems and hypervisors?

parent walterbell 8 years ago

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