Article 5KEG3 AMD PSF Control Support Still Awaiting The Mainline Linux Kernel

AMD PSF Control Support Still Awaiting The Mainline Linux Kernel

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It's been three months since AMD published a security whitepaper outlining the possibility of a side channel attack with PSF. The Predictive Store Forwarding functionality is new to AMD Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000 / EPYC 7003 series) processors and as part of their security analysis they are allowing users the ability to opt-out of using this feature in the name of greater security but the feature still hasn't been picked up for the mainline Linux kernel...
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