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  • AMD Threadripper nested page tables are disaster

    From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 31 15:01:48 2017
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    a huge bug
    AMD shot themselves in the foot
    last time I buy any of their shit

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  • From Yousuf Khan@21:1/5 to Nomen Nescio on Tue Jan 23 03:04:23 2018
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    On 8/31/2017 9:01 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    a huge bug
    AMD shot themselves in the foot
    last time I buy any of their shit


    Looks like the nested page tables are what prevent them from being
    hacked by the new Meltdown bug that affects all Intel processors.

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