Patch "powerpc/fsl: Fix the flush of branch predictor." has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Mar 30 02:07:53 AEDT 2019


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/fsl: Fix the flush of branch predictor.

to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-fsl-fix-the-flush-of-branch-predictor.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo at baz Fri Mar 29 16:04:51 CET 2019
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:26:19 +1100
Subject: powerpc/fsl: Fix the flush of branch predictor.
To: stable at vger.kernel.org, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org, diana.craciun at nxp.com, msuchanek at suse.de, christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Message-ID: <20190329112620.14489-32-mpe at ellerman.id.au>

From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>

commit 27da80719ef132cf8c80eb406d5aeb37dddf78cc upstream.

The commit identified below adds MC_BTB_FLUSH macro only when
CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E is defined. This results in the following error
on some configs (seen several times with kisskb randconfig_defconfig)

arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S:576: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mc_btb_flush'
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:367: arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:492: arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1043: arch/powerpc] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:152: sub-make] Error 2

This patch adds a blank definition of MC_BTB_FLUSH for other cases.

Fixes: 10c5e83afd4a ("powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (64bit)")
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ ret_from_mc_except:
 #define GEN_BTB_FLUSH
 #define CRIT_BTB_FLUSH
 #define DBG_BTB_FLUSH
+#define MC_BTB_FLUSH
 #define GDBELL_BTB_FLUSH
 #endif
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe at ellerman.id.au are

queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-emulate-sprn_bucsr-register.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-the-branch-predictor-at-each-kernel-entry-64bit.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-update-spectre-v2-reporting.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-macro-to-flush-the-branch-predictor.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-security-fix-spectre_v2-reporting.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-fix-the-flush-of-branch-predictor.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-enable-runtime-patching-if-nospectre_v2-boot-arg-is-used.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-fixed-warning-orphan-section-__btb_flush_fixup.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-nospectre_v2-command-line-argument.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-infrastructure-to-fixup-branch-predictor-flush.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-the-branch-predictor-at-each-kernel-entry-32-bit.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-branch-predictor-when-entering-kvm.patch


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