Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] arm64: Add SMCCC v1.1 support and CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) mitigation

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Jon,

On Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:22:27 +0100,
Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On 01/29/2018 12:45 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].
> 
> Some questions:
> 
> 1). What's the plan to implement the boot time on/off control for
> spectre_v2 mitigations?

None so far. It can only be disabled at compile time.

> 2). What's the plan to handle live migration of VMs?

[I assume that by "migration of VMs, you actually mean migration of
the mitigation state]

As I mentioned in response to your comment on the variant-4 series,
this is a work in progress, and is mentioned in the cover letter of
that series. Hopefully I'll find time to work on it next week.

	M.

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