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arm64: cpufeature: Detect SSBS and advertise to userspace
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:37:34 +0000 (11:37 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:46:01 +0000 (17:46 +0100)
commit765208d12322301f93747442d20787e45404f726
treea76f555a9b74a6a8e8ed9733e7eac60c6f880ec6
parentaa97092310c74572de8e16eff55903939b510485
arm64: cpufeature: Detect SSBS and advertise to userspace

Armv8.5 introduces a new PSTATE bit known as Speculative Store Bypass
Safe (SSBS) which can be used as a mitigation against Spectre variant 4.

Additionally, a CPU may provide instructions to manipulate PSTATE.SSBS
directly, so that userspace can toggle the SSBS control without trapping
to the kernel.

This patch probes for the existence of SSBS and advertise the new instructions
to userspace if they exist.

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c