This one should probably go down in history
From Tom Lendacky Subject [PATCH] x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors Date Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:43:54 -0600 AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page...
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