On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It should be a CPU_BUG bit as we have for the other mess. And that can be > > used for patching. > > It has to be done at compile time because it requires a compiler option.
If gcc anotates indirect calls/jumps in a way that we could patch them using alternatives in runtime, that'd be enough. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs