From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [v2, 01/10] powerpc: Add security feature flags for Spectre/Meltdown
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 01:13:30 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B8xR2CnPz9s1l@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180327120153.31612-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 12:01:44 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> This commit adds security feature flags to reflect the settings we
> receive from firmware regarding Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.
>
> The feature names reflect the names we are given by firmware on bare
> metal machines. See the hostboot source for details.
>
> Arguably these could be firmware features, but that then requires them
> to be read early in boot so they're available prior to asm feature
> patching, but we don't actually want to use them for patching. We may
> also want to dynamically update them in future, which would be
> incompatible with the way firmware features work (at the moment at
> least). So for now just make them separate flags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Series applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9a868f634349e62922c226834aa23e
cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-28 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-27 12:01 [PATCH v2 01/10] powerpc: Add security feature flags for Spectre/Meltdown Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] powerpc/pseries: Add new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS flags Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] powerpc/pseries: Set or clear security feature flags Michael Ellerman
2018-03-29 18:35 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] powerpc/powernv: " Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] powerpc/64s: Move cpu_show_meltdown() Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] powerpc/64s: Enhance the information in cpu_show_meltdown() Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] powerpc/powernv: Use the security flags in pnv_setup_rfi_flush() Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] powerpc/pseries: Use the security flags in pseries_setup_rfi_flush() Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] powerpc/64s: Wire up cpu_show_spectre_v1() Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:01 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] powerpc/64s: Wire up cpu_show_spectre_v2() Michael Ellerman
2018-03-27 12:36 ` T T
2018-03-28 9:15 ` Diana Madalina Craciun
2018-03-27 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] powerpc: Add security feature flags for Spectre/Meltdown Gabriel Paubert
2018-03-28 14:13 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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