Article 5XW80 Linux's Speculation Handling Was Messed Up After Resuming From Suspend For Boot CPU

Linux's Speculation Handling Was Messed Up After Resuming From Suspend For Boot CPU

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Hitting the mainline Linux Git tree today was a rather interesting fix... It turns out that when Linux was resuming from S3 suspend, it wasn't correctly restoring the MSRs for the boot CPU around handling speculative execution mitigations...
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