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Kernel – GCC and ‘Retpoline’..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 1, 2018 by RGFebruary 1, 2018

The recent summary of Kernel 4.15 mentioned the test for ‘compliant’ versions of GCC which fully support the retpoline mitigation, but only gave an example of non-compliance: With GCC 7.2: ~]$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2  Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline I re-created Fedora (Rawhide) GCC 7.3.1 for Fedora 27, and it gives the following, after Kernel 4.15 compilation/boot: ~]$ … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, gcc, Intel, kernel, Linux, Performance, retpoline | Tagged 7.3.1, backport, gcc, kernel, linux, mitigation, retpoline, spectre2 | Leave a reply

Kernel – 4.15 Final, at Last..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 28, 2018 by RGJanuary 28, 2018

Kernel 4.15 is – finally – released, and an overview of changes since -rc9 is here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.3/02794.html The latest NVIDIA drivers – 384.111 and 390.12 – compile and load OK, and VMware 14.1.1 is also OK. It is worth mentioning that , although the final release was delayed due to more work on PTI mitigation etc,  this … Continue reading →

Posted in kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged gcc 7.3, kernel 4.15 final, linux, nvidia 384.111 390.12, pti mitigation, retpoline, vmware 14.1.1 | 2 Replies
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