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Add rustc features retpoline-indirect-branches and retpoline-indirect-calls to compile Firecracker itself with retpoline mitigations for Spectre attacks

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Wanna try out the performance penalty we get when we enable retpoline

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Add rustc features retpoline-indirect-branches and
retpoline-indirect-calls to compile Firecracker itself with retpoline
mitigations for Spectre attacks

Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <[email protected]>
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