Not quite -- without his patch, the performance penalty will hit them too. Tom is proposing to be excluded from the proposed solution as it would hit AMD with c

Not quite -- without his patch, the performance penalty will hit them too. Tom is proposing to be excluded from the proposed solution as it would hit AMD with collateral damage from the `X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE` fix. I'm sure there are frantic emails claiming that AMD shouldn't be punished for Intel's mistake. EDIT: actually the fix will go out with 4.14.12 and 4.15rc7, both `X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE` and AMD's addendum to be protected from the collateral damage.