Re: arm: v4.18-rc5 with cpuidle on TC2 (A7 boot) spectre v2 issue

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:01:10AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:42:50AM +0200, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > running v4.18-rc5 (plus still missing "power: vexpress: fix corruption in
> > notifier registration", otherwise I get this rcu_sched stall issue) on TC2
> > (A7 boot) with vanilla multi_v7_defconfig plus
> > CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUIDLE=y gives me continuous:
> > 
> > ...
> >  CPUX: Spectre v2: incorrect context switching function, system vulnerable
> > ...
> > 
> > messages.
> > 
> > Work around is to disable CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR.
> 
> or disable big.Little if you want the hardening.
> 
> The choices are currently either protection against Spectre or big.Little
> support since the two are mutually exclusive at the moment.

An alternative would be to give the patches in the attachment a test.
They're not finished yet, so I haven't sent them out, but still worth
testing.

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