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dr-kart
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Re: The latest bad news.

#41 Post by dr-kart »

:sad: sandy bridge core i5
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile bs=512 count=5000000

4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 (2017-12-23)

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...2,45611 s, 1,0 GB/s
4.9.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04)

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...4,0773 s, 628 MB/s
:bawling: 4.14.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.14.12-2~mx17+1 (2018-01-06)

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...4,08073 s, 627 MB/s
seems like PCID didn't help so far with 4.14 kernel https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!top ... 9mHTbeQLNU
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bwich12
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Re: The latest bad news.

#42 Post by bwich12 »

dr-kart wrote:As far as I'm concerned

meltdown - (intel CPUs are vulnerable. AMD owners can ignore)
patch for debian kernel (4.9.65-3+deb9u2) is in sources already
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tra ... -2017-5754

spectre - 100% resolution is in future hardware. So would never get fixed via soft only.
Still hoping for new updated microcode to arrive anyway ).
And imho it's too much fuss here. Amazon cloud etc. should be nervous for sure. Not us. Btw spectre is much harder to exploit in real life.

PS (easy explanation of the story)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01 ... ity-flaws/
This is probably the best and most concise elaboration in this whole thread spilling over with misinformation and FUD. Meltdown is basically dealt with, and Spectre (especially variant 1), though there are mitigation measures, is ultimately unfixable. Another readable article is here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/0 ... explained/

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Re: The latest bad news.

#43 Post by v3g4n »

Thanks for enlightening us all with your words of wisdom taken from an article posted today.

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Re: The latest bad news.

#44 Post by Stevo »

Slowdown not as bad for my machine on the ported Liquorix 4.14-11 kernel. Intel Core i5-6200U

Booted with "nopti":

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2560000000 bytes (2.6 GB, 2.4 GiB) copied, 11.0231 s, 232 MB/s
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2560000000 bytes (2.6 GB, 2.4 GiB) copied, 12.0607 s, 212 MB/s

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Re: The latest bad news.

#45 Post by smilliken »

timkb4cq wrote:Glad my machines are AMD.
According to this https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-ra ... -meltdown/ AMD's are also included, along with ARM.
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#46 Post by timkb4cq »

Spectre affects AMD. Meltdown does not. Meltdown is the what the KAISER patches fix, and they are what slows down execution of calls to the kernel.
They still don't know how to completely fix Spectre since its leaking is primarily between different user processes - which includes between a VM & its Hypervisor. It does this primarily through shared libraries, since their address space is accessible to all users.

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Re: The latest bad news.

#47 Post by smilliken »

Sounds very ugly. Is MX waiting to see what comes down from Debian, or how do you deal with it?

Excuse me if this was answered prior to this post. Might be worth adding a sticky if it hasn't been done already.

Thanks Tim.
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Re: The latest bad news.

#48 Post by Stevo »

smilliken wrote:Sounds very ugly. Is MX waiting to see what comes down from Debian, or how do you deal with it?

Excuse me if this was answered prior to this post. Might be worth adding a sticky if it hasn't been done already.

Thanks Tim.
It's still in flux. 4.14.12 fixes problems discovered for some people with KPTI in 4.14.11, for example.

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#49 Post by uncle mark »

And the hits just keep on coming:

https://betanews.com/2018/01/08/microso ... s-amd-pcs/

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Details of the problem have been gradually emerging through reports posted by users on Microsoft Answers. People with AMD Athlon-powered computers say that following the installation of the patch, it is impossible to boot into Windows leaving a full reinstallation as the only option -- although some users report that even this does not fix the problem.
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Re: The latest bad news.

#50 Post by j2mcgreg »

Details of the problem have been gradually emerging through reports posted by users on Microsoft Answers. People with AMD Athlon-powered computers say that following the installation of the patch, it is impossible to boot into Windows leaving a full reinstallation as the only option -- although some users report that even this does not fix the problem.
The article only says that only users with older AMD kit are having this problem, but it doesn't say what versions of Windows are involved. When Microsoft initially released Win 10, video cards with Win 8.1 supported drivers worked fine. Not anymore. Coincidental to the widespread exposure of the cpu flaws, Microsoft now requires video cards to be fully supported in Win 10. I have a number of clients who experienced this problem and who had their problem solved by switching out their existing video card for a known good one.

In fairness the the article's author(s), the average Windows user is going to equate a black screen with a complete failure to boot. And they won't understand that, since updates in Win 10 can not be turned off, re-installation is a fool's errand because Win 10 will continue to fail to locate an appropriate driver.

in short blame Microsoft for slipping this in under the radar, and blame AMD for not updating their legacy drivers after the fact.
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