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Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances
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Originally posted by Weasel View PostYeah, this. Not much dependency hell.
How in the name of Jeezus are you relating the current situation, which is just choosing compile-time options of Linux kernel, to dependency hell.
Do you even know what is a Linux kernel, or what is dependency hell?
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Originally posted by Murple View PostStupid question (but I'm sure I'll get a kind response lol) but is there any benefit to compiling the kernel without mitigations rather than switching the mitigations off at boot time with the kernel options?
But if you need to compile your own kernel already for other reasons (which isn't as hard as it may seem), then you might as well set the additional things on compile time.
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Stupid question (but I'm sure I'll get a kind response lol) but is there any benefit to compiling the kernel without mitigations rather than switching the mitigations off at boot time with the kernel options?
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
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Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances
Phoronix: Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances
As the latest on the Spectre/Meltdown front for the Linux kernel, the in-development Linux 5.1 kernel is bringing an optimization for Retpolines "return trampolines" so GCC will generate more efficient code on x86/x86_64 in its mitigations against Spectre Variant Two...
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