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Spectre-v2 can be mitigated on Falkor CPUs either by calling into firmware or by issuing a magic, CPU-specific sequence of branches. Although the latter is faster, the size of the code sequence means that it cannot be used in the EL2 vectors, and so there is a need for both mitigations to co-exist in order to achieve optimal performance. Change the mitigation selection logic for Spectre-v2 so that the CPU-specific mitigation is used only when the firmware mitigation is also available, rather than when a firmware mitigation is unavailable. Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.