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Re:Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnera... by cesarb on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:36PM (#18366497)
> There's a very simple solution here. Don't schedule two threads with different trust domains on different SMT threads on the same core.

A single thread already has two different trust domains (user mode and kernel mode), so any pair of threads will have different trust domains when one of them is running a system call or an interrupt. So this solution would also have to either pause the SMT sibling while entering the kernel, or run the kernel code in a separate core (an idea like this was briefly suggested on the RISC-V isa-dev mailing list a few months ago: to have a separate core which handles interrupts and kernel mode for a group of user-mode-only cores).

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