Re: [PATCH 4.14 V2 00/17] V4.14 backport of more 32-bit arm spectre patches

From: Julien Thierry
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 03:54:45 EST


Hi David,

On 14/02/2019 02:10, David Long wrote:
> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> V4.14 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.

Same as 4.19 backports, I've reviewed these as well.

For patches 1 to 10 I can also confirm the generated code for the
mitigation looks sane.

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

For patches 11 to 17, tested on TC2 and CPUs use the correct method to
mitigate Spectre-v2.

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

Thanks,

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Julien Thierry