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

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Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 13:27:15 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>, pali.rohar@...il.com,
        sre@...nel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, tony@...mide.com,
        khilman@...nel.org, aaro.koskinen@....fi,
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        martijn@...xit.nl, sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com,
        Filip Matijević <filip.matijevic.pz@...il.com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/45] arm Spectre fix backport review for LTS 4.9

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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