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Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues


From: Lukas Odzioba <lukas.odzioba () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:28:33 +0200

2018-06-21 12:22 GMT+02:00 Lukas Odzioba <lukas.odzioba () gmail com>:
If you feel like you really need that, on Linux you can dump SRAT ACPI
table decompile it, remove APICID entries of "ht processors", compile
it back and put into initrd.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt

Or use cpu hotplug mechanism, which should be way more convenient:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/core-api/cpu_hotplug.html


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