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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by cesarb on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:05PM (#16082573)
Yes, from what I've read on the LKML, the IBRS has to be enabled and disabled by the kernel at the appropriate moments, and there will be a kernel command line flag to disable it (or leave it enabled all the time).
Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by jlgaddis on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:44PM (#16083070)
> ... there will be a kernel command line flag to disable it ...

FYI:

  pti=off