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Commit 2297ddb8 authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King Committed by 谢秀奇
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ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems


Commit 383fb3ee upstream.

In big.Little systems, some CPUs require the Spectre workarounds in
paths such as the context switch, but other CPUs do not.  In order
to handle these differences, we need per-CPU vtables.

We are unable to use the kernel's per-CPU variables to support this
as per-CPU is not initialised at times when we need access to the
vtables, so we have to use an array indexed by logical CPU number.

We use an array-of-pointers to avoid having function pointers in
the kernel's read/write .data section.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJulien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJulien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJulien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
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