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Re:Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Sl... by bonzini on Saturday November 17, 2018 @03:32PM (#18477235)
Yes, on some processors basically it's as if all userspace was recompiled to use retpolines. Enabling STIBP promises that one thread cannot influence the indirect branch predictor's operation when the sibling runs; on those processors the indirect branch predictor is completely disabled, which is an inefficient but valid way to implement STIBP semantics.

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