Spectre V2 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 Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen 3700X / 3900X Against Intel | Software | 2019-07-15 |
| Intel Core i9 9900K Spectre Mitigation Benchmarks | Software | 2018-10-31 |
Spectre V2 Linux & Open-Source News |
| New Patches Work To Optimize Code Generation For Linux Context Switching | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-28 |
| Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged | Intel | 2025-05-27 |
| Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations | Linux Security | 2025-01-13 |
| Some Qualcomm CPUs Left Exposed To Spectre Vulnerabilities On Mainline Linux | Arm | 2024-12-14 |
| Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations | Linux Security | 2024-09-18 |
| Linux 6.12 To Add New Build Options For More Fine-Grained Control Over CPU Mitigations | Linux Security | 2024-08-05 |
| Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit | Linux Security | 2024-04-20 |
| Linux 6.7 To Update Intel IBRS Mitigation Handling To Enhance System Performance | Intel | 2023-10-04 |
| Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance | Red Hat | 2023-06-19 |
| Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-23 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Arc Graphics, Google KataOS, Python 3.11 & Linux 6.1 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts | Phoronix | 2022-11-01 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults | Linux Security | 2021-09-12 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years | Arm | 2020-10-22 |
| Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM | Arm | 2020-10-01 |
| 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 |
| The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel | Hardware | 2020-01-28 |
| Zhaoxin 7-Series x86 CPUs Mitigated For Spectre V2 + SWAPGS | Hardware | 2020-01-16 |
| 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 |
| AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source Fans | Phoronix | 2019-10-03 |
| 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 |
| AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July | Phoronix | 2019-08-01 |
| Jailhouse 0.11 Hypervisor Brings New CPU Support, Spectre V2 Mitigation For ARM | Virtualization | 2019-07-08 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.6 RC1 Released With VM Optimizations, HAMMER2 By Default | BSD | 2019-06-12 |
| DragonFlyBSD Flips On Compiler-Based Retpoline Support For Its Kernel, Also Adds SMAP/SMEP | BSD | 2019-05-17 |
| ARM64 To Finally Broadcast Its Spectre State Via Sysfs, Prep For Neoverse & SVE2 | Arm | 2019-05-08 |
| The Notable Changes So Far With The Linux 5.1 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-12 |
| Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances | Linux Security | 2019-03-08 |
| Linux 4.20, Debian, Intel, x32, Microsft's Actions & STIBP Topics Rounded Out 2018 | Phoronix | 2019-01-01 |
| The Linux Kernel In 2018 Summed Up: Spectre/Meltdown, CoC, Speck Fears, New Features | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-31 |
| Linux CoC, Debian, Speck & Kernel Happenings Rounded Out Q4-2018 | Free Software | 2018-12-28 |
| NXP PowerPC Processors Finally Being Mitigated Against Spectre V2 With Linux 4.21 | Linux Security | 2018-12-27 |
| The Most Popular Intel Linux News & Reviews Of 2018 | Intel | 2018-12-25 |
| Many Linux x86_64 KVM Changes Ready To Go For Linux 4.21 | Virtualization | 2018-12-24 |
| Linux DMA Mapping Updates Help Recover Losses Caused By Spectre V2 Retpolines | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-21 |
| The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-20 |
| HardenedBSD 12 Released With Jailed Bhyve, Disables SMT By Default | BSD | 2018-12-19 |
| AMD Adding STIBP "Always-On Preferred Mode" To Linux | Hardware | 2018-12-14 |
| Linux 4.19.7 Released With Important PCI Express Fix, New & Improved STIBP | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-05 |
| Linux 4.19.7 Getting Revised STIBP Code, Important PCIe Fix For Radeon GPUs | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-04 |
| Reworked STIBP Code Lands In Linux 4.20 To Fix The Performance | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-01 |
| Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month | Phoronix | 2018-11-30 |
| Linux Stable Updates Are Dropping The Performance-Pounding STIBP | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-22 |
| Patches For The Better Spectre STIBP Approach Revised - Version 7 Under Review | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-21 |
| Linus Torvalds Comments On STIBP & He's Not Happy - STIBP Default Will End Up Changing | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-19 |
| Linux Gaming Performance Can Be Impaired By STIBP, But Hope May Be On The Horizon | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-18 |
| The Many Interesting Changes & Features So Far For Linux 4.20 (Or Perhaps Linux 5.0) | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-29 |
| Cross-Hyperthread Spectre V2 Mitigation Ready For Linux With STIBP | Linux Security | 2018-10-23 |
| 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 |
| Spectre V2 "Lite" App-To-App Protection Mode Readying For The Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2018-10-17 |
| More Spectre Variant Two Patches Queued For The Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2018-09-26 |
| Linux Readying Spectre V2 Userspace-Userspace Protection | Linux Security | 2018-09-26 |
| The "Chinese EPYC" Hygon Dhyana CPU Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux | AMD | 2018-09-23 |
| Linux Patch Posted For Cross-Hyperthread Spectre Mitigation With STIBP | Linux Security | 2018-08-31 |
| Patches Revised For AMD Zen Based Hygon Dhyana Server CPUs | Hardware | 2018-08-11 |
| Linux 4.19 Will Have Enhanced IBRS For Better Spectre V2 Protection On Future Intel CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-08-03 |
| Initial SpectreRSB Support Queued For Merging Into The Mainline Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2018-07-31 |
| Linux Kernel Gets Patch For New SpectreRSB Vulnerability | Linux Security | 2018-07-26 |
| Intel Prepares "Enhanced IBRS" As Better Spectre V2 Protection For Future CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-07-24 |
| Debian 9.5 Released With Security Fixes, Updated Intel Microcode For Spectre V2 | Debian | 2018-07-14 |
| Xen Hypervisor 4.11 Released With Many Core Improvements | Virtualization | 2018-07-10 |
| A Complete Look At Spectre V1/V2/V4 & Meltdown | Linux Security | 2018-06-17 |
| 32-bit ARM Finally Gets Mitigated For Spectre V1/V2 With Linux 4.18 | Linux Security | 2018-06-06 |
| Spectre V2 & Meltdown Linux Fixes Might Get Disabled For Atom N270 & Other In-Order CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-05-23 |
| LLVM 5.0.2 Released With Spectre Variant Two Mitigation | LLVM | 2018-05-16 |
| AMD AOCC 1.2 Compiler Released For Zen Systems, Brings FLANG & Retpolines | AMD | 2018-04-28 |
| OpenBSD 6.3 Released With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation, ARM64 SMP Support | BSD | 2018-04-02 |
| 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 |
| LLVM 5.0.2 Planned For Release At The End Of March With Spectre Mitigation | LLVM | 2018-03-14 |
| MIPS Gets Spectre Variant Two Mitigation In LLVM | Linux Security | 2018-02-21 |
| GCC Lands s390 Compiler-Side Changes For Spectre V2 | Hardware | 2018-02-11 |
| Spectre V1 Mitigation & Other Spectre/Meltdown Updates For 64-bit ARM On Linux 4.16 | Linux Security | 2018-02-08 |
| 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 |
| Initial Retpoline Support Added To LLVM For Spectre v2 Mitigation | Linux Security | 2018-01-22 |
| Spectre Variant One Mitigations Will Be Sent In For Linux 4.16 | Linux Security | 2018-01-20 |
| Retpoline Is Still Being Improved Upon For Intel Skylake/Kabylake | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-15 |
