International Business Machines Corporation

Shanna Beck

Douglas J Griffith

Anil Kalavakolanu

Sreenivas Makineedi

Srinivasa Rao Muppala

Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for performing Spectre mitigation on a workload. The method includes starting, by at least one processor of a plurality of processors, a process. The at least one processor determines that the process is a kernel process. The at least one processor determines that an interrupt has occurred in response to the determination that the process is a kernel process. The at least one processor processes the interrupt in response to determining that an interrupt has occurred. The at least one processor suppresses a malware mitigation to be applied to the kernel process in response to interrupt being processed.

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