powerpc/fsl: Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush
authorDiana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:03:00 +0000 (16:03 +0200)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:53:39 +0000 (22:53 +1100)
commit76a5eaa38b15dda92cd6964248c39b5a6f3a4e9d
treed7dcc7429ba50e9ab050dbd0ef444b87a3f78683
parentf242e0ac95cadb27527d0b06c957723c9f63dd74
powerpc/fsl: Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush

In order to protect against speculation attacks (Spectre
variant 2) on NXP PowerPC platforms, the branch predictor
should be flushed when the privillege level is changed.
This patch is adding the infrastructure to fixup at runtime
the code sections that are performing the branch predictor flush
depending on a boot arg parameter which is added later in a
separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c