Spectre Articles & Reviews |
AMD 4th Gen EPYC "Genoa" To Enjoy Slightly Better Performance With Linux 6.3 | Software | 2023-01-24 |
Disabling Spectre V2 Mitigations Is What Can Impair AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Performance | Software | 2022-10-04 |
The Performance Impact Of AMD Changing Their Retpoline Method For Spectre V2 | Software | 2022-03-11 |
In Light Of Spectre BHI, The Performance Impact For Retpolines On Modern Intel CPUs | Software | 2022-03-10 |
Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact For Intel's Rocket Lake | Software | 2021-04-02 |
A Look At The CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown | Software | 2021-01-06 |
The Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact On AMD Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" Processors | Processors | 2020-12-02 |
The Ongoing CPU Security Mitigation Impact On The Core i9 10900K Comet Lake | Computers | 2020-05-30 |
Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact | Operating Systems | 2020-04-16 |
The Desktop CPU Security Mitigation Impact On Ubuntu 20.04 | Operating Systems | 2020-04-13 |
LLVM Lands Performance-Hitting Mitigation For Intel LVI Vulnerability | Software | 2020-04-03 |
Looking At The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations | Software | 2020-01-13 |
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake Linux Performance Benchmarks | Processors | 2019-10-22 |
The Spectre Mitigation Impact For Intel Ice Lake With Core i7-1065G7 | Software | 2019-10-18 |
AMD EPYC Rome Still Conquering Cascadelake Even Without Mitigations | Processors | 2019-08-12 |
Initial Benchmarks Of The Spectre "SWAPGS" Mitigation Performance Impact | Software | 2019-08-07 |
Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 3700X / 3900X Against Intel | Software | 2019-07-15 |
The Speculative Execution Impact For A 4-Core POWER9 | Processors | 2019-06-12 |
A Look At How The Linux Performance Has Evolved Since The AMD EPYC Launch | Processors | 2019-06-07 |
Intel Core i5 8400 vs. i5 9400F Meltdown/Spectre/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Impact | Processors | 2019-06-05 |
Benchmarking AMD FX vs. Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs Following Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF, Zombieload | Software | 2019-05-24 |
A Look At The MDS Cost On Xeon, EPYC & Xeon Total Impact Of Affected CPU Vulnerabilities | Software | 2019-05-20 |
The Performance Impact Of MDS / Zombieload Plus The Overall Cost Now Of Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS | Software | 2019-05-18 |
Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact Across Eight Linux Distributions | Operating Systems | 2019-03-11 |
The Current Spectre / Meltdown Mitigation Overhead Benchmarks On Linux 5.0 | Software | 2019-03-03 |
A Look At The Clear Linux Performance Over The Course Of 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-12-14 |
Benchmarking The Work-In-Progress Spectre/STIBP Code On The Way For Linux 4.20 | Software | 2018-11-23 |
The Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact On Linux 4.20, Decimating Benchmarks With New STIBP Overhead | Software | 2018-11-17 |
Trying DragonFlyBSD & FreeBSD On The Intel Core i9 9900K With ASUS PRIME Z390-A | Operating Systems | 2018-11-14 |
The Performance Impact Of Spectre Mitigation On POWER9 | Software | 2018-11-11 |
Intel Core i9 9900K Spectre Mitigation Benchmarks | Software | 2018-10-31 |
The Performance Cost Of Spectre / Meltdown / Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux 4.19 | Software | 2018-08-30 |
Benchmarking The Performance Impact Of Speculative Store Bypass Disable For Spectre V4 On Intel Core i7 | Software | 2018-07-03 |
An Initial Look At Spectre V4 "Speculative Store Bypass" With AMD On Linux | Processors | 2018-05-22 |
DragonFlyBSD 5.3 Works Towards Performance Improvements | Operating Systems | 2018-05-21 |
AMD Ryzen 7 Performance On Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Six Linux Distributions | Operating Systems | 2018-04-07 |
A Look At The Relative Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation Costs On Windows vs. Linux | Operating Systems | 2018-03-23 |
An Early Look At The Linux 4.16 Kernel Performance With AMD EPYC | Software | 2018-03-10 |
Fresh Linux 4.16 Kernel Benchmarks With KPTI & Retpolines | Software | 2018-03-05 |
Windows 10 WSL vs. Linux Performance For Early 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-02-22 |
Benchmarking Amazon EC2 Instances vs. Various Intel/AMD CPUs | Software | 2018-02-20 |
A Look At The Plethora Of Linux 4.16 Kernel Features & Changes | Software | 2018-02-11 |
Amazon EC2 Cloud Compute Performance: December vs. February | Operating Systems | 2018-02-10 |
EXT4 vs. XFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS With Linux 4.15 Comparing KPTI/Retpoline | Storage | 2018-01-20 |
Debian vs. Ubuntu vs. CentOS vs. openSUSE vs. Clear Linux Post-Meltdown Performance | Operating Systems | 2018-01-12 |
KPTI + Retpoline Linux Benchmarking On Old Laptops | Software | 2018-01-11 |
Benchmarking Linux With The Retpoline Patches For Spectre | Software | 2018-01-08 |
NVIDIA Gaming Performance Minimally Impacted By KPTI Patches | Linux Gaming | 2018-01-04 |
Spectre Linux & Open-Source News |
Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-23 |
OpenBSD 7.3 Released With AMD RDNA3 Graphics, Guided Disk Encryption | BSD | 2023-04-10 |
Linux Inadvertently Has Been Leaving IBRS-Mitigated Systems Without STIBP | Linux Security | 2023-02-27 |
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 |
Linux KVM Gets Patched For New AMD Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions Bug | AMD | 2023-02-14 |
Proposed Linux Patch Would Allow Disabling CPU Security Mitigations At Build-Time | Linux Security | 2023-02-03 |
New AMD Linux Patches Prepare Secure TSC Support For SEV-SNP Guests | AMD | 2023-01-31 |
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 |
AMD Continued Its Great Linux Embrace In 2022 With Better Launch-Day Support + Optimizations | AMD | 2022-12-31 |
The Many New Features On The Horizon For Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-09 |
AMD Auto IBRS Linux Patches Updated For Better Performance Over Generic Retpolines | AMD | 2022-11-30 |
AmpereOne Getting Mitigated Against Spectre-BHB With Linux 6.2 | Arm | 2022-11-06 |
AMD Posts Linux Patches For "Automatic IBRS" Feature New To Zen 4 | AMD | 2022-11-04 |
FineIBT Looks Like It Could Be Ready For Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-02 |
Arc Graphics, Google KataOS, Python 3.11 & Linux 6.1 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts | Phoronix | 2022-11-01 |
FineIBT Updated For Linux As Alternative Control Flow Integrity (CFI) Approach | Linux Security | 2022-10-20 |
Linux 6.1 POWERs Up With KFENCE, Syscall Wrappers, Execute-Only Memory | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-16 |
Linux 6.1 Should Be Very Exciting With Rust, AMD PMF, MGLRU & Other Changes Expected | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-02 |
With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations | AMD | 2022-09-30 |
Linux 6.1 Adding Option To Disable Spectre-BHB On Arm Due To "Great Impact" On Performance | Arm | 2022-09-11 |
VMware: ESXi VM Performance Tanks Up To 70% Due To Intel Retbleed Mitigation | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-09 |
AMD CPU Microcode Loading On Linux Being Fixed Up To Be Per-Thread | AMD | 2022-08-16 |
Linux 5.19.1 Released With LTS Kernels Back To 4.19 For The "PBRSB" CPU Issue | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-11 |
Linux Kernel Patched For "PBRSB" After Intel eIBRS CPUs Found To Be Insufficient | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-09 |
Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights | Phoronix | 2022-08-01 |
Intel Working On New Hardware-Based Prevention For Spectre-BHI Attacks | Intel | 2022-07-18 |
Retbleed: Call Depth Tracking Mitigation Eyed To Avoid IBRS "Performance Horror Show" | Linux Security | 2022-07-17 |
"Retbleed" Published As Arbitrary Speculative Execution With Return Instructions | Linux Security | 2022-07-12 |
Apple M1 Affected By "PACMAN" Hardware Vulnerability In Arm Pointer Authentication | Apple | 2022-06-10 |
Linux 5.19 Frowns On x86/x86_64 Late Microcode Loading - "It's Just Lottery & Broken" | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-06 |
Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March | Phoronix | 2022-04-02 |
Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
Intel Preparing Linux Support To Handle Live Microcode Updates Affecting SGX | Intel | 2022-03-15 |
Linux 5.17 Pushed Back Due To The New Spectre Attack, Other Headaches | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-13 |
Linux Lands Mitigations For Spectre-BHB / BHI On Intel & Arm, Plus An AMD Change Too | Linux Security | 2022-03-08 |
BHI: The Newest Spectre Vulnerability Affecting Intel & Arm CPUs | Linux Security | 2022-03-08 |
Researcher Talks Of Possible CPU Security Mitigations With No Performance Cost | Linux Security | 2022-02-11 |
x86 Straight Line Speculation CPU Mitigation Appears For Linux 5.17 | Linux Security | 2022-01-12 |
Linux 5.16-rc4 Released - "Nothing Looks All That Scary" | Linux Kernel | 2021-12-05 |
Linux Fixes Spectre V1 SWAPGS Mitigation After Being Partially Borked Since Last Year | Linux Security | 2021-12-05 |
Improved Retpoline Code In The Linux 5.16 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2021-11-10 |
Firefox 94.0 Released With Linux Build Using EGL For Better Performance, Power Savings | Mozilla | 2021-11-02 |
Linux 5.16 Loosens The Spectre Defaults Around SSBD / STIBP | Linux Security | 2021-11-01 |
Improved Retpoline Code Staged Ahead Of Linux 5.16 | Linux Security | 2021-10-29 |
Vortex86 Processor Detection Landing For Linux 5.16 | Hardware | 2021-10-23 |
Vortex86 Processors Finally Seeing Work In 2021 For Proper Handling Under Linux | Operating Systems | 2021-10-17 |
Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit | Linux Security | 2021-10-13 |
Linux 5.16 To Expose AMD PSF Disable Bit To KVM Guests | AMD | 2021-09-28 |
Still-Pending AMD PSF Control Patch To Be Retailored For KVM | AMD | 2021-09-13 |
Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults | Linux Security | 2021-09-12 |
AMD Van Gogh Audio Driver Lands For Linux 5.15 | Multimedia | 2021-09-02 |
SDL2 Lands Support For Client-Side Decorations On Wayland | Wayland | 2021-07-26 |
The Most Popular Intel Linux/Open-Source News From H1'2021 | Intel | 2021-07-08 |
AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm | AMD | 2021-07-04 |
Linux Kernel's BPF Fixed Up Against Spectre Vulnerability Bypass | Linux Security | 2021-06-24 |
Windows vs. Linux, 5.13 Kernel, FreeBSD 13, Other May Excitement | Free Software | 2021-06-01 |
Toggling Spectre Mitigations On Xeon Scalable Ice Lake Show Little Runtime Difference | Intel | 2021-05-23 |
Linux 5.13 Brings Simplified Retpolines Handling | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-09 |
New Spectre Variants Discovered By Exploiting Micro-op Caches | Linux Security | 2021-05-01 |
Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | Phoronix | 2021-05-01 |
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) | AMD | 2021-04-06 |
AMD Publishes Security Analysis Of Zen 3 "PSF" That Could Possibly Lead To A Side-Channel Attack | AMD | 2021-04-02 |
Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March | Phoronix | 2021-04-01 |
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 |
Google Publishes "Leaky.Page" Showing Spectre In Action Within Web Browsers | Google | 2021-03-12 |
W3C Prepares Guidance For Web Development In A Post-Spectre World | Programming | 2021-03-11 |
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 |
Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | Phoronix | 2021-02-01 |
AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12 | Hardware | 2021-01-16 |
Linux To Report MIPS Vulnerabilities But They Often Go Unreported Or Dead Vendors | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-31 |
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 |
After Years Of Work With 40+ Revisions, Intel SGX Looks Like It Will Land In Linux 5.11 | Linux Security | 2020-12-14 |
The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10 | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-08 |
A Quick Look At The Spectre Mitigation State For AMD Zen 3 On Windows 10 | AMD | 2020-12-05 |
Linux Looks To Change The Default For Some Of Its Spectre Mitigations | Linux Security | 2020-11-05 |
KVM For Linux 5.10 Brings New "TDP" MMU To Help VMs With Hundreds Of vCPUs, TBs of RAM | Virtualization | 2020-10-24 |
Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years | Arm | 2020-10-22 |
Linux 5.10 To See Static Calls For Helping Cases Where Retpolines Are Used | Linux Security | 2020-10-12 |
There Are Many Changes To Look Forward To With The Linux 5.10 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-11 |
Arm Memory Tagging Extension Ready For Linux 5.10 | Arm | 2020-10-11 |
Linux 5.10 To Fix Some HP Laptops Performing Less Than Optimally On AC Power | Hardware | 2020-10-08 |
XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks | Virtualization | 2020-10-03 |
Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM | Arm | 2020-10-01 |
Security Researchers Detail New "BlindSide" Speculative Execution Attack | Linux Security | 2020-09-11 |
Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "R5U4" | Oracle | 2020-09-03 |
Go 1.15 Released With Much Improved Linker, New CPU Mitigations | Programming | 2020-08-11 |
After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-04 |
Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9 | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-03 |
New readfile() System Call Under Review For Reading Small~Medium Files Faster | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-04 |
x86/urgent Updates Sent In To Linux 5.8 With The Speculation Mitigation Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-12 |
Google Engineer Uncovers Holes In Linux's Speculative Execution Mitigations | Linux Security | 2020-06-09 |
Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations | Linux Security | 2020-05-27 |
Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month | Phoronix | 2020-04-30 |
Intel SGX Enclaves Support For Linux Sent Out For A 29th Time | Intel | 2020-04-26 |
Intel FSGSBASE Linux Support Revived For A Performance Boost On Intel/AMD Processors | Intel | 2020-04-24 |
Seven Changes We've Been Waiting On That You Will Not Find In Linux 5.7 | Linux Kernel | 2020-04-16 |
Linux Developers Are Once Again Trying To Enable Intel FSGSBASE For Better Performance | Intel | 2020-04-14 |
Linux 5.7 For 64-bit ARM Brings In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors | Arm | 2020-03-31 |
Google Engineer Shows "SESES" For Mitigating LVI + Side-Channel Attacks - Code Runs ~7% Original Speed | LLVM | 2020-03-21 |
Intel Developer's Patch To Let SECCOMP Processes Like Web Browsers Opt Out Of Spectre V4 | Intel | 2020-03-13 |
More AMD Family 19h (Zen 3) Code Trickling Into Linux 5.7 | AMD | 2020-03-12 |
LVI Attack Hits Intel SGX - Defeats Existing Mitigations, More Performance Hits | Intel | 2020-03-10 |
Oracle Ships Solaris 11.4 SRU18 - Finally Mitigates The SWAPGS Vulnerability | Oracle | 2020-02-19 |
SpecFuzz Emerges To Test Code For Spectre-Style Vulnerabilities | Linux Security | 2020-02-04 |
Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January | Phoronix | 2020-02-01 |
KVM Virtualization Adds Protections For Spectre-V1/L1TF Combination Attack | Virtualization | 2020-01-31 |
The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel | Hardware | 2020-01-28 |
Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG | Arm | 2020-01-24 |
Zhaoxin 7-Series x86 CPUs Mitigated For Spectre V2 + SWAPGS | Hardware | 2020-01-16 |
Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019 | Phoronix | 2019-12-31 |
Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Development Performance Comparison Without Mitigations | Ubuntu | 2019-12-29 |
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | Phoronix | 2019-12-12 |
KVM Virtualization Updates For Linux 5.5 Are Particularly Busy On The AMD/Intel Side | Virtualization | 2019-11-30 |
Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs | Linux Security | 2019-11-28 |
Linux 5.5 To Perform Late CPU Microcode Updates In Parallel | Linux Kernel | 2019-11-25 |
Ice Lake, Ryzen 9, Kernel Happenings & Other Highlights For An Exciting October | Phoronix | 2019-11-01 |
Linux Returns To Parallel CPU Microcode Updates To Reduce Cloud Disruption | Hardware | 2019-10-04 |
AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source Fans | Phoronix | 2019-10-03 |
It Turns Out CPU Speculative Execution Can Be Useful For Random Entropy / RNG | Hardware | 2019-09-29 |
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 |
Intel Resurrecting FSGSBASE Support For Linux To Help With Performance | Intel | 2019-09-12 |
AMD EPYC 7002 & Ryzen 3000 Series Dominated Linux Interest During August | Phoronix | 2019-09-01 |
VMware Is Exploring Reducing Meltdown/PTI Overhead With Deferred Flushes | Linux Kernel | 2019-08-25 |
Parallel CPU Microcode Updates Being Restored To Help Large Core Count Servers | Hardware | 2019-08-23 |
Linux 5.3-rc4 Released With A Week Of Fixes Plus SWAPGS "Grand Schemozzle" Code | Linux Kernel | 2019-08-11 |
Linux 4.4 & 4.9 Kernels Get Back-Ported SWAPGS Protection | Linux Kernel | 2019-08-11 |
CVE-2019-1125 "SWAPGS" Is The Newest Spectre Vulnerability | Linux Security | 2019-08-06 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Brings Cloud Improvements, Kernel Livepatching | Red Hat | 2019-08-06 |
Debian's DebConf 19 Slides & Video Presentations | Debian | 2019-08-04 |
AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July | Phoronix | 2019-08-01 |
Mining Monero Cryptocurrency On The Open-Source POWER9 Raptor Blackbird | Hardware | 2019-07-31 |
Linux 5.2.1 Released For Riding The Latest Stable Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-14 |
Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019 | Phoronix | 2019-07-09 |
x86 CPU Changes For Linux 5.3 Bring Intel UMWAIT, Zhaoxin, Engineering Train Wreck | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-08 |
Jailhouse 0.11 Hypervisor Brings New CPU Support, Spectre V2 Mitigation For ARM | Virtualization | 2019-07-08 |
Linux's Performance-Boosting FSGSBASE Support Dropped For Now Over Serious Bugs | Hardware | 2019-07-05 |
Ubuntu Drama, Clear Linux Speed & WSL2 Sparked Lots Of Interest In June | Phoronix | 2019-07-01 |
A Quick Look At The Debian 10.0 Buster vs. Debian 9.9 Performance | Debian | 2019-06-17 |
DragonFlyBSD 5.6 RC1 Released With VM Optimizations, HAMMER2 By Default | BSD | 2019-06-12 |
RHEL 7.7 Beta Comes With MDS/Zombieload Mitigations | Red Hat | 2019-06-06 |
Zombieload, RHEL 8.0, Linux 5.2 & GCC Happenings Dominated May | Free Software | 2019-05-31 |
Linux Fix Pending For Borked Hibernation After Disabling Hyper Threading | Linux Kernel | 2019-05-30 |
ZombieLoad Mitigation Costs For Intel Haswell Xeon, Plus Overall Mitigation Impact | Linux Security | 2019-05-23 |
OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations | SUSE | 2019-05-22 |