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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull spectre/meltdown updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The next round of updates related to melted spectrum: - The initial set of spectre V1 mitigations: - Array index speculation blocker and its usage for syscall, fdtable and the n180211 driver. - Speculation barrier and its usage in user access functions - Make indirect calls in KVM speculation safe - Blacklisting of known to be broken microcodes so IPBP/IBSR are not touched. - The initial IBPB support and its usage in context switch - The exposure of the new speculation MSRs to KVM guests. - A fix for a regression in x86/32 related to the cpu entry area - Proper whitelisting for known to be safe CPUs from the mitigations. - objtool fixes to deal proper with retpolines and alternatives - Exclude __init functions from retpolines which speeds up the boot process. - Removal of the syscall64 fast...
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