arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2
From: Jayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com> 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: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [v4.9 backport] Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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