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OS: Chrome
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Type: Feature



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Turn off V8 mitigations for CPU platforms where Spectre is fixed

Reported by shiyu.zh...@intel.com, Aug 27

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Currently, V8 implements security mitigations like poisoning and array index masking to help protect against security vulnerability like Spectre. These mitigations are governed by a build-time flag untrusted-code-mitigations and can cause performance regression for some computational-heavy workloads.

Since these vulnerability may have been fixed on some latest CPUs, and ChomeOS image is built per platforms, I was wondering if we can turn off untrusted-code-mitigations when building ChromeOS for platforms with fixed CPUs. 

 
Components: Blink>JavaScript
Components: -Blink>JavaScript Blink>JavaScript>WebAssembly Blink>JavaScript>Interpreter Blink>JavaScript>Compiler
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)
Could you please provide a list of CPUs that have fixes for Spectre?
Cc: tianyou...@intel.com pan.d...@intel.com

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