* David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Retpoline means the kernel is safe because it has no indirect branches.
> But firmware isn't, so use IBRS for firmware calls if it's available.

Ok, this approach looks good to me in principle, but:

> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/apm.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/apm.h
> @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_X86_MACH_DEFAULT_APM_H
>  #define _ASM_X86_MACH_DEFAULT_APM_H
>  
> +#include <asm/spec_ctrl.h>

I cannot see this header file upstream anywhere, nor in any other patch in my 
mbox 
- is there some dependency that has to be applied first?

Thanks,

        Ingo

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