Linux Being Patched For Buggy MWAIT Behavior On Intel Ice Lake Servers

Linux Being Patched For Buggy MWAIT Behavior On Intel Ice Lake Servers

The Linux kernel has seen safeguards for select prior Intel CPU cores due to bugs around the MONITOR/MWAIT implementation with the processors. MWAIT/MONITOR bugs was found to be the cause of annoying issues at boot for Lunar Lake laptops and…

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