AMD: Predictive Store Forwarding PSF

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 08:39:52 UTC 2021


Shouldn't this get a kernel option, sysctl, test app...?

https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-analysis-predictive-store-forwarding.pdf

AMD advised customers last week to disable a new
performance feature if they plan to use CPUs for sensitive operations,
as this feature is vulnerable to Spectre-like side-channel attacks.
Called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF), this feature was added to
AMD CPUs part of the company's Zen 3 core architecture.


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