Thomas Gleixner who has been wrangling all of the Spectre and Meltdown related patches for the Linux kernel tree has submitted another pull request of more changes to land for the
Linux 4.16cycle that is nearing the end of its development.
This latest batch of “x86/pti” updates for “melted spectrum updates” is relatively modest
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