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2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Will Deacon
c28762070c arm64: Rewrite Spectre-v4 mitigation code
Rewrite the Spectre-v4 mitigation handling code to follow the same
approach as that taken by Spectre-v2.

For now, report to KVM that the system is vulnerable (by forcing
'ssbd_state' to ARM64_SSBD_UNKNOWN), as this will be cleared up in
subsequent steps.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-09-29 16:08:16 +01:00
Will Deacon
d4647f0a2a arm64: Rewrite Spectre-v2 mitigation code
The Spectre-v2 mitigation code is pretty unwieldy and hard to maintain.
This is largely due to it being written hastily, without much clue as to
how things would pan out, and also because it ends up mixing policy and
state in such a way that it is very difficult to figure out what's going
on.

Rewrite the Spectre-v2 mitigation so that it clearly separates state from
policy and follows a more structured approach to handling the mitigation.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-09-29 16:08:15 +01:00