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by jeffbee 2244 days ago
Has there ever been an Intel CPU with working TSX that didn't get disabled by a microcode update?
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Afaik Skylake/Kabylake.
It looks to me like Intel recommends disabling TSX on all SKUs due to Zombieload V2.
Well, yeah, TSX appears to be a side channel attack exploitable by a malicious hyperthread. But that's not particularly close to TSX itself being buggy on Haswell.

If you only run trusted code, Zombieload V2 seems irrelevant (on first glance. I didn't look deeper to see if there are ways to exploit it from a bytecode interpreter or such.)