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Compiling with GCC retpoline flags
As of version 8 (later backported to 7.3), GCC has added retpoline support [0]. While I understand that it is intended[citation needed] for use in kernel patching for Spectre (ie: [1][2]), that does ...
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Software mitigation for Spectre v2
I run Debian as my OS and Guix as my package manager. I also run (approximately) latest kernel built using Guix. According to spectre-meltdown-checker, my kernel has mitigation for v1, v2 and v3.
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