Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 10/21] ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:02:54AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> We need to keep track of which Spectre patches have been backported
> and which haven't.  David Long has been doing the backport work,
> which doesn't include all the patches in my present spectre branch.
> You've picked up the last five, meaning there's a bunch in the middle
> of the entire series which haven't yet been considered - for example,
> the Spectre variant 1.1 patches.

I'll drop all the ones you pointed out from my branches. Sometimes it's
difficult to tell if a certain patch is part of the spectre fix.

> The entire series of 32-bit ARM Spectre patches can be listed in
> mainline via:
>
> $ git log v4.16..383fb3ee8024
>
> where almost all of those need to be applied to stable kernels, with
> possible manual back-porting where they don't apply.

Is it something that will be backported at some point?

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Thanks,
Sasha