Hi Greg,
These are missing patches from the initial powerpc spectre backports for 4.4. Please queue them as well if you don't have any objections.
Thanks,
Diana Craciun (8): powerpc/fsl: Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used powerpc/fsl: Flush branch predictor when entering KVM powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit) powerpc/fsl: Sanitize the syscall table for NXP PowerPC 32 bit platforms powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup' powerpc/fsl: Add FSL_PPC_BOOK3E as supported arch for nospectre_v2 boot arg Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 10 ++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h | 12 ++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S | 15 +++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S | 4 ++++ arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c | 7 +++++++ 8 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)