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arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2
authorJayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:22:47 +0000 (04:22 -0800)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:59:20 +0000 (19:59 +0000)
commit764513f0d64722cfbff6dbb338f1508823a09ef3
treec070edac0a5e8fe9bab727073dbeb1f72378493ctree | snapshot
parent53376d2be00195f347792e4f924324156f468c06commit | diff
arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2

Use PSCI based mitigation for speculative execution attacks targeting
the branch predictor. We use the same mechanism as the one used for
Cortex-A CPUs, we expect the PSCI version call to have a side effect
of clearing the BTBs.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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