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 -- http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail