On 5 January 2018 at 23:20, Vikas Tara <v...@hamaralinux.org> wrote:
> The retpoline approach suggested yesterday looks like it provides a
> better approach wrt performance so may be worth waiting:
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-Retpoline-Patches

Ahh yes, that's due to the linker patchset; the kernel asm would have
to be fixed up accordingly too.  It is independent from KPTI though.
Expect many more patches for spectre.

Siddhesh
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