------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-04-12 14:02 EDT------- I tried out the PPA kernel you posted, Manoj, and it looks good here, too, from my testing: mranweil@ltc-wspoon5:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.15.0-48-generic (buildd@bos02-ppc64el-002) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)) #51~lp1822870+build.4-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 11 21:21:18 UTC 2019 mranweil@ltc-wspoon5:~$ dmesg |grep count-cache-flush [ 0.000000] count-cache-flush: hardware assisted flush sequence enabled mranweil@ltc-wspoon5:~$ grep -H . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Software count cache flush (hardware acceleratd)
------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-04-12 14:02 EDT------- ltc-wspoon5: ~$ cat /proc/version bos02-ppc64el- 002) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1 ~18.04) ) #51~lp1822870+ build.4- Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 11 21:21:18 UTC 2019 ltc-wspoon5: ~$ dmesg |grep count-cache-flush ltc-wspoon5: ~$ grep -H . /sys/devices/ system/ cpu/vulnerabili ties/spectre_ v2 system/ cpu/vulnerabili ties/spectre_ v2:Mitigation: Software count cache flush (hardware acceleratd)
I tried out the PPA kernel you posted, Manoj, and it looks good here, too, from my testing:
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Linux version 4.15.0-48-generic (buildd@
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[ 0.000000] count-cache-flush: hardware assisted flush sequence enabled
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/sys/devices/