From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jcm@redhat.com (Jon Masters) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:59:29 -0500 Subject: [PATCH v4 00/17] arm64: Add SMCCC v1.1 support and CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) mitigation In-Reply-To: <20180206175621.929-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com> References: <20180206175621.929-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Marc, all, On 02/06/2018 12:56 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > ARM has recently published a SMC Calling Convention (SMCCC) > specification update[1] that provides an optimised calling convention > and optional, discoverable support for mitigating CVE-2017-5715. ARM > Trusted Firmware (ATF) has already gained such an implementation[2]. I'm probably just missing something, but does this end up reported somewhere conveniently user visible? In particular, if the new SMC is *not* provided, does the user end up easily seeing this? Jon. -- Computer Architect | Sent from my Fedora powered laptop