[PATCH 07/14] ARM: spectre-v2: add Cortex A8 and A15 validation of the IBE bit

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed May 16 09:34:31 PDT 2018


On 05/16/2018 04:01 AM, Russell King wrote:
> When the branch predictor hardening is enabled, firmware must have set
> the IBE bit in the auxiliary control register.  If this bit has not
> been set, the Spectre workarounds will not be functional.
> 
> Add validation that this bit is set, and print a warning at alert level
> if this is not the case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
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Florian



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