linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 34/77] powerpc: fix build errors in stable tree

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Message-ID: <1519306335.2388.18.camel@debian.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:32:15 +0100
From:   Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 34/77] powerpc: fix build errors in stable tree

On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 00:16 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> With the patches I just sent, for pseries and powernv, the mitigation
> should be in place. On machines with updated firmware we'll use the
> hardware-assisted L1 flush, otherwise we fallback to doing it in
> software.

So as of 4.9.82 meltdown is *not* addressed on those arches, but it should be
ok in 4.9.83 or 4.9.84 depending on when the patches are merged?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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