Re: [PATCH 06/14] ARM: spectre-v2: harden branch predictor on context switches

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* Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [180521 12:06]:
> Harden the branch predictor against Spectre v2 attacks on context
> switches for ARMv7 and later CPUs.  We do this by:
> 
> Cortex A9, A12, A17, A73, A75: invalidating the BTB.
> Cortex A15, Brahma B15: invalidating the instruction cache.
> 
> Cortex A57 and Cortex A72 are not addressed in this patch.
> 
> Cortex R7 and Cortex R8 are also not addressed as we do not enforce
> memory protection on these cores.

Not seeing regressions so:

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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