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A comment on Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability. Parent comment

Re:Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability by mratsim on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:23AM (#38639448)
Was TSX ever used? I didn't even see an ounce of dev documentation about it.
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Re:Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability by magnat on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:46AM (#38640342)
HLE, which is a subset of TSX, is (was?) supported by glibc [1]. Not sure if it is enabled by default. If it is, pretty much every multithreaded linux process would be affected.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Elision-T...

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