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From: nm@ti.com (Nishanth Menon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM branch predictor hardening
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:59:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <381ab8ef-15db-5018-74ec-74d65cfb6883@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180108185533.9698-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com>

On 01/08/2018 12:55 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
[...]
> These patches are closely modelled against what we do on arm64,
> although simpler as we can rely on an architected instruction to
> perform the invalidation. The notable exception is Cortex-A15, where
> BTB invalidation behaves like a NOP, and the only way to shoot the
> predictor down is to invalidate the icache *and* to have ACTLR[0] set
> to 1 (which is a secure-only operation).

On u-boot side, we'd probably have to work off ->
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=a615d0be6a73fc48a22e5662608260fe9b9149ff


[...]

-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-08 18:55 [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM branch predictor hardening Marc Zyngier
2018-01-08 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] arm: Add BTB invalidation on switch_mm for Cortex-A9, A12 and A17 Marc Zyngier
2018-01-09 14:14   ` Andre Przywara
2018-01-09 14:21     ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-09 14:22       ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-10 17:53   ` Tony Lindgren
2018-01-10 17:57     ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-10 21:52       ` Nishanth Menon
2018-01-11  9:03         ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-29 18:41           ` Fabio Estevam
2018-01-29 19:21             ` Fabio Estevam
2018-01-29 19:28               ` Fabio Estevam
2018-01-08 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] arm: Invalidate BTB on prefetch abort outside of user mapping on Cortex A8, A9, " Marc Zyngier
2018-01-09  9:56   ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-10 16:45   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-08 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] arm: KVM: Invalidate BTB on guest exit Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 12:22   ` Robin Murphy
2018-01-23 14:22   ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-23 14:38     ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-08 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] arm: Add icache invalidation on switch_mm for Cortex-A15 Marc Zyngier
2018-01-10  1:28   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-01-10  1:33     ` André Przywara
2018-01-10  1:35       ` Florian Fainelli
2018-01-10  9:13         ` Andre Przywara
2018-01-08 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] arm: Invalidate icache on prefetch abort outside of user mapping on Cortex-A15 Marc Zyngier
2018-01-08 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] arm: KVM: Invalidate icache on guest exit for Cortex-A15 Marc Zyngier
2018-01-23 14:26   ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-09 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM branch predictor hardening Florian Fainelli
2018-01-09 17:46   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-10 16:50 ` Nishanth Menon
2018-01-10 17:16   ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-10 22:59 ` Nishanth Menon [this message]

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