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arm64: spectre-v2: Favour CPU-specific mitigation at EL2
authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:01:57 +0000 (16:01 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:01:57 +0000 (16:01 +0100)
commit051796cd87c03c5a6e051fd3fd08da7c4d923f1b
tree4ea2c390058e54fb3b182d9518eda196e1e7db5e
parentf169f7eaa3c4b848f0d5805c4285257b3073462e
arm64: spectre-v2: Favour CPU-specific mitigation at EL2

Spectre-v2 can be mitigated on Falkor CPUs either by calling into
firmware or by issuing a magic, CPU-specific sequence of branches.
Although the latter is faster, the size of the code sequence means that
it cannot be used in the EL2 vectors, and so there is a need for both
mitigations to co-exist in order to achieve optimal performance.

Change the mitigation selection logic for Spectre-v2 so that the
CPU-specific mitigation is used only when the firmware mitigation is
also available, rather than when a firmware mitigation is unavailable.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c