Detail please refer to the email threads and discussion listed: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control support https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/6/546 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/6/739 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/29/855 This patchset is backporting for v4.4 and against latest v4.4.128