Response to Meltdown and Spectre

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:20:24PM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Konstantin Belousov
> <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:57:51AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> >> Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754)
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Initial work can be tracked at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13797.
> >> Please note this is a work in progress and some stuff is likely to be
> >> broken.
> > I consider this patch as ready for review now.
> 
> Awesome! So, what's next? Do we have some testers we can solicit to
> beat on this? I believe des@ had a test case to try out? Based on
> where we are, what needs to be done to get this into the tree?
> Secondarily, what's needed to get this in shape for 10.3/10.4/11.1?

As expected, nothing happens WRT review.

Peter tested the patch, it seems to be fine. I put shims to allow i386
to compile. My idea is to flip the default to non-PTI and commit the
patch as is today.