Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/17] V4.19 backport of more 32-bit arm spectre patches

From: Julien Thierry
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 03:51:04 EST


Hi David,

On 13/02/2019 21:32, David Long wrote:
> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> V4.19 backport of spectre patches from Russell M. King's spectre branch.
> Patches have been kvm-unit-test'ed on an arndale, run through kernelci, and
> handed off to ARM for functional testing.
>

I've reviewed the backports.

For Spectre-v1.1 I also checked we do get the expected code sequence in
the generated image at the expected locations. So, for patches 1 to 10:

Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>

For Spectre-v2 big.Little patches, I managed to test this on TC2 and can
confirm CPUs pick up the correct mitigation method. So, for patches 11
to 17:

Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,

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Julien Thierry