Re: [PATCH v6 04/10] arm64: Advertise mitigation of Spectre-v2, or lack thereof

2019-03-25 Thread Suzuki K Poulose
On 21/03/2019 23:05, Jeremy Linton wrote: From: Marc Zyngier We currently have a list of CPUs affected by Spectre-v2, for which we check that the firmware implements ARCH_WORKAROUND_1. It turns out that not all firmwares do implement the required mitigation, and that we fail to let the user

[PATCH v6 04/10] arm64: Advertise mitigation of Spectre-v2, or lack thereof

2019-03-21 Thread Jeremy Linton
From: Marc Zyngier We currently have a list of CPUs affected by Spectre-v2, for which we check that the firmware implements ARCH_WORKAROUND_1. It turns out that not all firmwares do implement the required mitigation, and that we fail to let the user know about it. Instead, let's slightly revamp