[PATCH stable v4.4 0/8] missing powerpc spectre backports for 4.4

Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx> · Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:49:00 +0300

Hi Greg,

These are missing patches from the initial powerpc spectre backports for 4.4.
Please queue them as well if you don't have any objections.

Thanks,

Diana Craciun (8):
  powerpc/fsl: Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used
  powerpc/fsl: Flush branch predictor when entering KVM
  powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register
  powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit)
  powerpc/fsl: Sanitize the syscall table for NXP PowerPC 32 bit
    platforms
  powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup'
  powerpc/fsl: Add FSL_PPC_BOOK3E as supported arch for nospectre_v2
    boot arg
  Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt   |  6 +++++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S        | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h      | 12 ++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S  | 15 +++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c        |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c        |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S |  4 ++++
 arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c       |  7 +++++++
 8 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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