On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 02:45:01PM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to request
> 2a355ec25729 ("arm64: kpti: Whitelist Cortex-A CPUs that don't implement the CSV3 field")
>
> to be backported to 4.19 stable.
>
> These CPUs are not susceptible to Meltdown, so enabling the mitigations
> for Meltdown (kpti) should be redundant, especially since we know that
> it can have a huge performance penalty for certain workloads.
>
> kpti will still be automatically enabled if KASLR is enabled.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
