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From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/29] arm meltdown fix backporting review for lts 4.9
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:14:50 +0000,
Alex Shi wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/01/2018 11:24 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:56:22AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> This backport patchset fixed the meltdown issue, it's original branch:
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=kpti
> >> A few dependency or fixingpatches are also picked up, if they are necessary
> >>  and no functional changes.
> >>
> >> The patchset also on repository:
> >> 	git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lts-4.9-spectrevv2 
> >>
> >> No bug found yet from kernelci.org and lkft testing.
> > 
> > No bugs is good, but does it actually fix the meltdown problem?  What
> > did you test it on?
> 
> Oh, I have no A73/A75 cpu, so I can not reproduce meltdown bug.

Cortex-A73 is not affected by Meltdown. Only A75 is. Please don't
spread misinformation. They are both affected by Spectre though.

	M.

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