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    Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 35277995
    Linus 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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