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On 2018-02-12 19:24, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> I've read online that there should be vulnerability info (Meltdown, |
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> Spectre) in /sys under /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities but this |
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> doesn't exist on my PC. |
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> I've updated to gentoo-sources-4.9.76-r1, shouldn't this info be present? |
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> $ uname -a |
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> Linux zatpc 4.9.76-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Mon Feb 12 09:20:32 PST 2018 x86_64 |
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> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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See the other threads: you need at least 4.9.79 for the /sys bits. |
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If you've enabled PTI at build time it's enabled, no need to do anything |
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else. |
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Later 4.9 kernels also contain patches for spectre (PTI is not relevant |
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there). |
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