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Time will tell if there is any noticeable performance hit from normal desktop use.
Hmmm...which kernel is showing you that message? I can't get it with the Liquorix 4.14-10 kernel.
Edit: seems like Liquorix has page table isolation turned off for some reason. Let me see how much smoke comes out if I enable it and rebuild the kernel...
v3g4n wrote:That is from vanilla 4.14.11 w/ page tables isolation enabled.
v3g4n, are you saying that the 4.14.11 kernel from https://www.kernel.org/ has already fixed 'meltdown' and 'spectre?
Yes, the patches were incorporated into the standard 4.14.10 kernel patchset, but KPTI still must be enabled in the configuration. Users can still boot without it with "nopti".
So far it looks like this is the kernel version that openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch and Fedora have changed to quickly since the announcement. openSUSE Leap is coming out with a patched 4.4 from SUSE. Hopefully Debian rolls something out quickly as well.
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spectre - 100% resolution is in future hardware. So would never get fixed via soft only.
Still hoping for new updated microcode to arrive anyway ).
And imho it's too much fuss here. Amazon cloud etc. should be nervous for sure. Not us. Btw spectre is much harder to exploit in real life.