arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2
Commit f3d795d9 upstream. Use PSCI based mitigation for speculative execution attacks targeting the branch predictor. We use the same mechanism as the one used for Cortex-A CPUs, we expect the PSCI version call to have a side effect of clearing the BTBs. Acked-by:Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Jayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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