linux-kernel - Re: Requirements for retpoline in Linux 4.15 (was: Re: Linux 4.15)

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:53:50 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Requirements for retpoline in Linux 4.15 (was: Re: Linux 4.15)

On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 10:41 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> From what I read gcc 7.3 was supposed to include back ported retpoline 
> patches. What am I missing here?

Which did you update first? Kernel source or GCC?

Try removing .cache.mk which has 'remembered' that your GCC doesn't
support retpoline.

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