Re: [PATCH 00/45] arm Spectre fix backport review for LTS 4.9

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Mar 08 2018 - 07:27:23 EST


Hi!

> Resent without non-upstream patches.
>
> This backport patchset fixed the spectre issue, it's original branch:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=kpti
> A few dependency or fixingpatches are also picked up, if they are necessary
> and no functional changes.
>
> No bug found from kernelci.org and lkft testing. It also could be gotten from:
>
> git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git v4.9-spectre-upstream-only
>
> Comments are appreciated!

Not entirely related to this patched, but... I have few older ARM
boards here, and Nokia N9000 I really care about.

AFAICT Meltdown is arm64 only?

Spectre affects the older boards, too, right? Was there any work done
on that? cpuinfo says "ARMv7" for N900.

Thanks,
Pavel
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