| Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:45:41 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/24] x86/speculation: Remedy the STIBP/IBPB overhead |
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:14:30PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > It's based on the x86/pti branch unfortunately, which contains the removal > of the minimal asm retpoline hackery. I noticed too late. If the minimal > asm stuff should not be backported it's trivial to rebase that series on > Linus tree.
I see no problem with backporting those patches; the rationale for them also holds for the stable trees, people really should have a retpoline enabled compiler available by now.
Also, that minimal thing provided about as much protection as thinking happy thoughts.
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