<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.3/02794.html" class="">http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.3/02794.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Will certainly be interesting to see the state of meltdown after kernel-ml packages are built and installed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also as Linus states:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">"You can do</div><br class=""><font face="IBMPlexMono" class="">
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
and if you don't have a compiler that supports the retpoline<br class="">
mitigations, you'll get:</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><br class="">
because only the assembly code (not the C code) will have the<br class="">
retpoline mitigation. So keep that in mind."</blockquote>
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