From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30EAA1382C5 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB33DE094A; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmta21.teksavvy.com (pmta21.teksavvy.com [76.10.157.36]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75686E0932 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:44:40 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2HDIABVOeJa/ynQSC1bGwEBAQEDAQEBC?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAYNDgVsoiA+DRI0TgwOTE4F4HhgBhEACgkkhNhYBAgEBAQEBAQICAmgohSU?= =?us-ascii?q?GOk8LDRQTEg8FXIUPqmkaAoQ8g2+CRYgRVIEAP4QahT+CZIIkAocikGcIAoFmj?= =?us-ascii?q?FWBMoYYFgyEdJFgIwQugVJ9CIJ+kGojMHgBkDsBAQ?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2HDIABVOeJa/ynQSC1bGwEBAQEDAQEBCQEBAYNDgVsoiA+?= =?us-ascii?q?DRI0TgwOTE4F4HhgBhEACgkkhNhYBAgEBAQEBAQICAmgohSUGOk8LDRQTEg8FX?= =?us-ascii?q?IUPqmkaAoQ8g2+CRYgRVIEAP4QahT+CZIIkAocikGcIAoFmjFWBMoYYFgyEdJF?= =?us-ascii?q?gIwQugVJ9CIJ+kGojMHgBkDsBAQ?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,332,1520913600"; d="scan'208";a="27725702" Received: from unknown (HELO waltdnes.org) ([45.72.208.41]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 2018 16:44:33 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:44:23 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:44:23 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 Message-ID: <20180426204423.GA14996@waltdnes.org> References: <5554603.qA2dy5pxaE@peak> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5554603.qA2dy5pxaE@peak> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-Archives-Salt: a559dcba-03ba-46bc-98ba-db0da00291f5 X-Archives-Hash: 68027a37d695d6c20c28f5ee331a615e On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:15:23AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote I installed it today, having run into a few mysterious *TOTAL* lockups under 4.12.something (could not ssh in and magic-SysRQ didn't work). Anyhow, "make oldconfig" asked a couple of questions about "retpoline" and switching off user access to kernel memory under some context switches. I played safe and enabled the protections. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications