Retpolines Articles & Reviews |
| AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" To Enjoy Slightly Better Performance With Linux 6.3 | Software | 2023-01-24 |
| In Light Of Spectre BHI, The Performance Impact For Retpolines On Modern Intel CPUs | Software | 2022-03-10 |
| Intel Core i9 9900K Spectre Mitigation Benchmarks | Software | 2018-10-31 |
| Fresh Linux 4.16 Kernel Benchmarks With KPTI & Retpolines | Software | 2018-03-05 |
Retpolines Linux & Open-Source News |
| Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling | Programming | 2024-07-24 |
| Linux 6.9-rc5 Picking Up Fixes For Intel FRED, BHI & GFNI/VAES Checks | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-21 |
| Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-23 |
| Intel LKGS, AMD Automatic IBRS & Caching AMD Debug Registers Merged For Linux 6.3 | Linux Kernel | 2023-02-22 |
| AMD Has Many New CPU/GPU Features Ready For Linux 6.3 | AMD | 2023-02-18 |
| AMD Zen 4's Automatic IBRS Feature Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.3 | AMD | 2023-01-18 |
| AMD Updates Linux Patches For Automatic IBRS On Zen 4 | AMD | 2023-01-12 |
| The Most Interesting New Features For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-08 |
| AMD Auto IBRS Linux Patches Updated For Better Performance Over Generic Retpolines | AMD | 2022-11-30 |
| AMD Posts Linux Patches For "Automatic IBRS" Feature New To Zen 4 | AMD | 2022-11-04 |
| Linux 6.1 Hardening Retpolines With Ensuring An INT3 After Every Unconditional Jump | Linux Security | 2022-10-05 |
| With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations | AMD | 2022-09-30 |
| "Retbleed" Published As Arbitrary Speculative Execution With Return Instructions | Linux Security | 2022-07-12 |
| Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March | Phoronix | 2022-04-02 |
| Intel CET Indirect Branch Tracking Submitted For Linux 5.18 | Intel | 2022-03-26 |
| Linux Lands Mitigations For Spectre-BHB / BHI On Intel & Arm, Plus An AMD Change Too | Linux Security | 2022-03-08 |
| x86 Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation On Track For Linux 5.17 | Linux Security | 2021-12-11 |
| x86 Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation Patches Updated For Linux | Linux Security | 2021-12-05 |
| Improved Retpoline Code In The Linux 5.16 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2021-11-10 |
| Improved Retpoline Code Staged Ahead Of Linux 5.16 | Linux Security | 2021-10-29 |
| Linux + GCC/Clang Patches Coming For Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation On x86/x86_64 | Linux Security | 2021-10-28 |
| Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit | Linux Security | 2021-10-13 |
| Linux 5.13 Brings Simplified Retpolines Handling | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-09 |
| Linux 5.13 Networking Includes BPF Improvements, Optimizations, WWAN + MANA | Linux Networking | 2021-05-03 |
| Features Expected For Linux 5.13 From Apple M1 To FreeSync HDMI To AMD Aldebaran | Linux Kernel | 2021-04-17 |
| Linux Core Scheduling Nears The Finish Line To Avoid Flipping Off HT | Linux Security | 2021-03-25 |
| Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines | Linux Networking | 2021-03-21 |
| AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance Looking Good For AMD With Linux 5.12 Fix | AMD | 2021-03-01 |
| Linux 5.12 Crypto Brings AES-NI Acceleration For CTS, Faster XTS With Retpolines | Linux Security | 2021-02-16 |
| There Are Big Changes On The Horizon With Linux 5.12 | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-14 |
| AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12 | Hardware | 2021-01-16 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020 | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-01-03 |
| A Look At The Big Impact To AES-XTS Encryption Performance From Spectre Retpolines | Linux Security | 2020-12-30 |
| AES-NI XTS To See 2~3x Performance Recovery After Regressing Hard From Retpolines | Linux Security | 2020-12-29 |
| The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10 | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-08 |
| Linux 5.10 To See Static Calls For Helping Cases Where Retpolines Are Used | Linux Security | 2020-10-12 |
| Researchers Make More Discoveries Around L1TF/Foreshadow - It's Not Good | Linux Security | 2020-08-06 |
| Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations | Linux Security | 2020-05-27 |
| KVM Virtualization Updates For Linux 5.5 Are Particularly Busy On The AMD/Intel Side | Virtualization | 2019-11-30 |
| Red Hat Working On Optimizing KVM Virtualization Performance Stemming From Spectre | Virtualization | 2019-09-23 |
| CentOS 7.7 Released As The Last Stop Before CentOS 8.0 | Red Hat | 2019-09-17 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Brings Cloud Improvements, Kernel Livepatching | Red Hat | 2019-08-06 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.6 Released With VM System, HAMMER2 In Good Shape | BSD | 2019-06-17 |
| RHEL 7.7 Beta Comes With MDS/Zombieload Mitigations | Red Hat | 2019-06-06 |
| OpenSUSE's Spectre Mitigation Approach Is One Of The Reasons For Its Slower Performance | SUSE | 2019-04-14 |
| Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances | Linux Security | 2019-03-08 |
| Microsoft Finally Enables Retpolines For Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows Server 2019 | Microsoft | 2019-03-01 |
| OPTPOLINES - Formerly Relpolines, Lower Overhead To Retpolines For Spectre Mitigation | Linux Security | 2018-12-31 |
| Linux 4.21 Is Going To Be A Big Release To Jump-Start The New Year | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-22 |
| Linux DMA Mapping Updates Help Recover Losses Caused By Spectre V2 Retpolines | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-21 |
| HardenedBSD 12 Released With Jailed Bhyve, Disables SMT By Default | BSD | 2018-12-19 |
| Linux Networking Improvements To Mitigate Retpoline Overhead Ready For 4.21 Kernel | Linux Networking | 2018-12-17 |
| Linux Networking Performance To Improve Thanks To Retpoline Overhead Reduction | Linux Networking | 2018-12-07 |
| FreeBSD 12.0-RC2: Debugging Bits Turned Off, Knob To Build Userland With Retpolines | BSD | 2018-11-25 |
| OpenBSD 6.4 Released - Disables SMT/HT By Default, Updates Radeon DRM | BSD | 2018-10-18 |
| RELPOLINES: A New Spectre V2 Approach To Lower Overhead Of Retpolines | Linux Security | 2018-10-18 |
| Another Minor Optimization Queued For Systems Mitigated Against Spectre / Meltdown | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-08 |
| A Lot Of Spectre Changes Land In The Linux 4.19 Git Tree, Possible Performance Impact | Linux Security | 2018-08-14 |
| Linux 4.19 Will Have Enhanced IBRS For Better Spectre V2 Protection On Future Intel CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-08-03 |
| Intel Prepares "Enhanced IBRS" As Better Spectre V2 Protection For Future CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-07-24 |
| Xen Hypervisor 4.11 Released With Many Core Improvements | Virtualization | 2018-07-10 |
| CentOS 6.10 Released, Scientific Linux 6.10 Coming Next Week | Red Hat | 2018-07-06 |
| A Look At Some Of The Clear Linux Performance Changes For June 2018 | Clear Linux | 2018-06-29 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Released With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation | Red Hat | 2018-06-20 |
| Spectre V2 & Meltdown Linux Fixes Might Get Disabled For Atom N270 & Other In-Order CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-05-23 |
| AMD AOCC 1.2 Compiler Released For Zen Systems, Brings FLANG & Retpolines | AMD | 2018-04-28 |
| More Windows Server vs. Linux Benchmark Tests With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigations | Linux Security | 2018-03-31 |
| Fresh Benchmarks Of CentOS 7 On Xeon & EPYC With/Without KPTI/Retpolines | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-20 |
| Linux 4.16 Receives More Spectre & Meltdown Fixes/Optimizations | Linux Security | 2018-02-26 |
| LLVM / Clang 6.0 Should Be Released Soon With Its Many New Features | LLVM | 2018-02-25 |
| Another Potential Performance Optimization For KPTI Meltdown Mitigation | Linux Kernel | 2018-02-23 |
| MIPS Gets Spectre Variant Two Mitigation In LLVM | Linux Security | 2018-02-21 |
| FreeBSD Finally Gets Mitigated For Spectre & Meltdown | Linux Security | 2018-02-17 |
| S390 Architecture Gets Spectre Mitigation With "Expoline" & Other Patches | Hardware | 2018-02-09 |
| Spectre V1 Mitigation, IBPB Support Sent In For Linux 4.16 | Linux Security | 2018-02-04 |
| Linux 4.16 Can Be A Lot Faster For Small I/O Activity | Linux Storage | 2018-01-31 |
| Spectre / Meltdown Code Gets Cleaned Up, Improvements For Linux 4.16 | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-29 |
| OpenSUSE Rolling Out Retpoline Support, Xen Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation | Linux Security | 2018-01-28 |
| GCC 7.3 Released With Spectre V2 Mitigation Support | GNU | 2018-01-25 |
| GCC 7.3 Scheduled For Release On Thursday | GNU | 2018-01-22 |
| Spectre Variant One Mitigations Will Be Sent In For Linux 4.16 | Linux Security | 2018-01-20 |
| GCC 7.3 Preparing For Release To Ship Spectre Patches | GNU | 2018-01-17 |
| Benchmarking Retpoline Underflow Protection With Intel Skylake/Kabylake | Intel | 2018-01-17 |
