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SubjectRe: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel
> It should be a CPU_BUG bit as we have for the other mess. And that can be
> used for patching.

It has to be done at compile time because it requires a compiler option.

Most of the indirect calls are in C code.

So it cannot just patched in, only partially out.

-Andi

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