AMD recommendations for CVE-2017-5715

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • AMD system performance is degraded with Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) set to 2 as a default configuration.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • AMD EPYC CPU
  • AMD Ryzen Mobile APU
  • AMD Ryzen CPU
  • AMD Threadripper CPU

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