[PATCH 00/11 v2] powerpc/fsl: NXP PowerPC Spectre variant 2 workarounds

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Sat Dec 22 21:07:21 AEDT 2018


Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com> writes:
> Implement Spectre variant 2 workarounds for NXP PowerPC Book3E
> processors.
>
> Diana Craciun (11):
>   Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush
>   Add macro to flush the branch predictor
>   Fix spectre_v2 mitigations reporting
>   Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register
>   Add nospectre_v2 command line argument
>   Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (64bit)
>   Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit)
>   Flush branch predictor when entering KVM
>   Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used
>   Update Spectre v2 reporting
>   Add FSL_PPC_BOOK3E as supported arch for nospectre_v2 boot arg

Hi Diana,

Sorry I already applied v1 a few days ago.

I realise I didn't send out the "applied to next" emails, so my fault
for that.

Can you send me an incremental patch for the changes in v2? Thanks.

cheers


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