Re: [PATCH v4.4 V2 24/43] arm64: Add skeleton to harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks

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On 06-08-19, 13:18, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Upstream and in v4.9, the meltdown patches came before the spectre
> patches, and doing this in the opposite order causes context problems
> like the above.
> 
> Given that, I think it would be less surprising to do the meltdown
> backport first, though I apprecaite that's more work to get these
> patches in. :/

I attempted meltdown backport in the last two days and the amount of
extra patches to be backported is enormous. And I am not sure if
everything is alright as well now, and things will greatly rely on
reviews from you for it.

For this series, what about just backporting for now to account for
CSV3 ? And attempting meltdown backport separately later ?

179a56f6f9fb arm64: Take into account ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3

-- 
viresh



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