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<title>linux.git/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile, branch v4.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() should depend on CONFIG_CRASH_CORE</title>
<updated>2018-09-11T10:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-10T14:20:54+00:00</published>
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Since commit 23c85094fe18 ("proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore")
the kernel has exported the vmcoreinfo PT_NOTE on /proc/kcore as well
as /proc/vmcore.

arm64 only exposes it's additional arch information via
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if built with CONFIG_KEXEC, as kdump was
previously the only user of vmcoreinfo.

Move this weak function to a separate file that is built at the same
time as its caller in kernel/crash_core.c. This ensures values like
'kimage_voffset' are always present in the vmcoreinfo PT_NOTE.

CC: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Since commit 23c85094fe18 ("proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore")
the kernel has exported the vmcoreinfo PT_NOTE on /proc/kcore as well
as /proc/vmcore.

arm64 only exposes it's additional arch information via
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if built with CONFIG_KEXEC, as kdump was
previously the only user of vmcoreinfo.

Move this weak function to a separate file that is built at the same
time as its caller in kernel/crash_core.c. This ensures values like
'kimage_voffset' are always present in the vmcoreinfo PT_NOTE.

CC: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: convert compat wrappers to C</title>
<updated>2018-07-12T13:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-11T13:56:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=55f849265af886aaf404cbf8a659b2c8d411fc3a'/>
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<content type='text'>
In preparation for converting to pt_regs syscall wrappers, convert our
existing compat wrappers to C. This will allow the pt_regs wrappers to
be automatically generated, and will allow for the compat register
manipulation to be folded in with the pt_regs accesses.

To avoid confusion with the upcoming pt_regs wrappers and existing
compat wrappers provided by core code, the C wrappers are renamed to
compat_sys_aarch32_&lt;syscall&gt;.

With the assembly wrappers gone, we can get rid of entry32.S and the
associated boilerplate.

Note that these must call the ksys_* syscall entry points, as the usual
sys_* entry points will be modified to take a single pt_regs pointer
argument.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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In preparation for converting to pt_regs syscall wrappers, convert our
existing compat wrappers to C. This will allow the pt_regs wrappers to
be automatically generated, and will allow for the compat register
manipulation to be folded in with the pt_regs accesses.

To avoid confusion with the upcoming pt_regs wrappers and existing
compat wrappers provided by core code, the C wrappers are renamed to
compat_sys_aarch32_&lt;syscall&gt;.

With the assembly wrappers gone, we can get rid of entry32.S and the
associated boilerplate.

Note that these must call the ksys_* syscall entry points, as the usual
sys_* entry points will be modified to take a single pt_regs pointer
argument.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: convert raw syscall invocation to C</title>
<updated>2018-07-12T13:43:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-11T13:56:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4141c857fd09dbed480f021b3eece4f46c653161'/>
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As a first step towards invoking syscalls with a pt_regs argument,
convert the raw syscall invocation logic to C. We end up with a bit more
register shuffling, but the unified invocation logic means we can unify
the tracing paths, too.

Previously, assembly had to open-code calls to ni_sys() when the system
call number was out-of-bounds for the relevant syscall table. This case
is now handled by invoke_syscall(), and the assembly no longer need to
handle this case explicitly. This allows the tracing paths to be
simplified and unified, as we no longer need the __ni_sys_trace path and
the __sys_trace_return label.

This only converts the invocation of the syscall. The rest of the
syscall triage and tracing is left in assembly for now, and will be
converted in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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As a first step towards invoking syscalls with a pt_regs argument,
convert the raw syscall invocation logic to C. We end up with a bit more
register shuffling, but the unified invocation logic means we can unify
the tracing paths, too.

Previously, assembly had to open-code calls to ni_sys() when the system
call number was out-of-bounds for the relevant syscall table. This case
is now handled by invoke_syscall(), and the assembly no longer need to
handle this case explicitly. This allows the tracing paths to be
simplified and unified, as we no longer need the __ni_sys_trace path and
the __sys_trace_return label.

This only converts the invocation of the syscall. The rest of the
syscall triage and tracing is left in assembly for now, and will be
converted in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T17:00:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-29T12:11:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9cdc0108baa8ef87c76ed834619886a46bd70cbe'/>
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If running on a system that performs dynamic SSBD mitigation, allow
userspace to request the mitigation for itself. This is implemented
as a prctl call, allowing the mitigation to be enabled or disabled at
will for this particular thread.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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If running on a system that performs dynamic SSBD mitigation, allow
userspace to request the mitigation for itself. This is implemented
as a prctl call, allowing the mitigation to be enabled or disabled at
will for this particular thread.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Move the content of bpi.S to hyp-entry.S</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T10:36:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e8b22d0f4500c7bb6aab879d4e32b2a00c89d5f8'/>
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<content type='text'>
bpi.S was introduced as we were starting to build the Spectre v2
mitigation framework, and it was rather unclear that it would
become strictly KVM specific.

Now that the picture is a lot clearer, let's move the content
of that file to hyp-entry.S, where it actually belong.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
bpi.S was introduced as we were starting to build the Spectre v2
mitigation framework, and it was rather unclear that it would
become strictly KVM specific.

Now that the picture is a lot clearer, let's move the content
of that file to hyp-entry.S, where it actually belong.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-04-09T18:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-09T18:42:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d8312a3f61024352f1c7cb967571fd53631b0d6c'/>
<id>d8312a3f61024352f1c7cb967571fd53631b0d6c</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - VHE optimizations

   - EL2 address space randomization

   - speculative execution mitigations ("variant 3a", aka execution past
     invalid privilege register access)

   - bugfixes and cleanups

  PPC:
   - improvements for the radix page fault handler for HV KVM on POWER9

  s390:
   - more kvm stat counters

   - virtio gpu plumbing

   - documentation

   - facilities improvements

  x86:
   - support for VMware magic I/O port and pseudo-PMCs

   - AMD pause loop exiting

   - support for AMD core performance extensions

   - support for synchronous register access

   - expose nVMX capabilities to userspace

   - support for Hyper-V signaling via eventfd

   - use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V

   - allow userspace to disable MWAIT/HLT/PAUSE vmexits

   - usual roundup of optimizations and nested virtualization bugfixes

  Generic:
   - API selftest infrastructure (though the only tests are for x86 as
     of now)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (174 commits)
  kvm: x86: fix a prototype warning
  kvm: selftests: add sync_regs_test
  kvm: selftests: add API testing infrastructure
  kvm: x86: fix a compile warning
  KVM: X86: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"
  KVM: X86: Introduce handle_ud()
  KVM: vmx: unify adjacent #ifdefs
  x86: kvm: hide the unused 'cpu' variable
  KVM: VMX: remove bogus WARN_ON in handle_ept_misconfig
  Revert "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown"
  kvm: Add emulation for movups/movupd
  KVM: VMX: raise internal error for exception during invalid protected mode state
  KVM: nVMX: Optimization: Dont set KVM_REQ_EVENT when VMExit with nested_run_pending
  KVM: nVMX: Require immediate-exit when event reinjected to L2 and L1 event pending
  KVM: x86: Fix misleading comments on handling pending exceptions
  KVM: x86: Rename interrupt.pending to interrupt.injected
  KVM: VMX: No need to clear pending NMI/interrupt on inject realmode interrupt
  x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V
  x86/hyper-v: detect nested features
  x86/hyper-v: define struct hv_enlightened_vmcs and clean field bits
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - VHE optimizations

   - EL2 address space randomization

   - speculative execution mitigations ("variant 3a", aka execution past
     invalid privilege register access)

   - bugfixes and cleanups

  PPC:
   - improvements for the radix page fault handler for HV KVM on POWER9

  s390:
   - more kvm stat counters

   - virtio gpu plumbing

   - documentation

   - facilities improvements

  x86:
   - support for VMware magic I/O port and pseudo-PMCs

   - AMD pause loop exiting

   - support for AMD core performance extensions

   - support for synchronous register access

   - expose nVMX capabilities to userspace

   - support for Hyper-V signaling via eventfd

   - use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V

   - allow userspace to disable MWAIT/HLT/PAUSE vmexits

   - usual roundup of optimizations and nested virtualization bugfixes

  Generic:
   - API selftest infrastructure (though the only tests are for x86 as
     of now)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (174 commits)
  kvm: x86: fix a prototype warning
  kvm: selftests: add sync_regs_test
  kvm: selftests: add API testing infrastructure
  kvm: x86: fix a compile warning
  KVM: X86: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"
  KVM: X86: Introduce handle_ud()
  KVM: vmx: unify adjacent #ifdefs
  x86: kvm: hide the unused 'cpu' variable
  KVM: VMX: remove bogus WARN_ON in handle_ept_misconfig
  Revert "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown"
  kvm: Add emulation for movups/movupd
  KVM: VMX: raise internal error for exception during invalid protected mode state
  KVM: nVMX: Optimization: Dont set KVM_REQ_EVENT when VMExit with nested_run_pending
  KVM: nVMX: Require immediate-exit when event reinjected to L2 and L1 event pending
  KVM: x86: Fix misleading comments on handling pending exceptions
  KVM: x86: Rename interrupt.pending to interrupt.injected
  KVM: VMX: No need to clear pending NMI/interrupt on inject realmode interrupt
  x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V
  x86/hyper-v: detect nested features
  x86/hyper-v: define struct hv_enlightened_vmcs and clean field bits
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Move BP hardening vectors into .hyp.text section</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T13:05:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T13:28:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4340ba80bd3a310d8eb9011df2e63c6371e28113'/>
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<content type='text'>
There is no reason why the BP hardening vectors shouldn't be part
of the HYP text at compile time, rather than being mapped at runtime.

Also introduce a new config symbol that controls the compilation
of bpi.S.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
There is no reason why the BP hardening vectors shouldn't be part
of the HYP text at compile time, rather than being mapped at runtime.

Also introduce a new config symbol that controls the compilation
of bpi.S.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi/arm64: Check whether x18 is preserved by runtime services calls</title>
<updated>2018-03-09T07:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T08:00:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7e611e7dbb235938fca1dd359bad5e5f86ceabcb'/>
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<content type='text'>
Whether or not we will ever decide to start using x18 as a platform
register in Linux is uncertain, but by that time, we will need to
ensure that UEFI runtime services calls don't corrupt it.

So let's start issuing warnings now for this, and increase the
likelihood that these firmware images have all been replaced by that time.

This has been fixed on the EDK2 side in commit:

  6d73863b5464 ("BaseTools/tools_def AARCH64: mark register x18 as reserved")

dated July 13, 2017.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308080020.22828-6-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Whether or not we will ever decide to start using x18 as a platform
register in Linux is uncertain, but by that time, we will need to
ensure that UEFI runtime services calls don't corrupt it.

So let's start issuing warnings now for this, and increase the
likelihood that these firmware images have all been replaced by that time.

This has been fixed on the EDK2 side in commit:

  6d73863b5464 ("BaseTools/tools_def AARCH64: mark register x18 as reserved")

dated July 13, 2017.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180308080020.22828-6-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: Add arch-specific SDEI entry code and CPU masking</title>
<updated>2018-01-13T10:45:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-08T15:38:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f5df26961853d6809d704cedcaf082c57f635a64'/>
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<content type='text'>
The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM standard
for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS.
This is typically used to implement RAS notifications.

Such notifications enter the kernel at the registered entry-point
with the register values of the interrupted CPU context. Because this
is not a CPU exception, it cannot reuse the existing entry code.
(crucially we don't implicitly know which exception level we interrupted),

Add the entry point to entry.S to set us up for calling into C code. If
the event interrupted code that had interrupts masked, we always return
to that location. Otherwise we pretend this was an IRQ, and use SDEI's
complete_and_resume call to return to vbar_el1 + offset.

This allows the kernel to deliver signals to user space processes. For
KVM this triggers the world switch, a quick spin round vcpu_run, then
back into the guest, unless there are pending signals.

Add sdei_mask_local_cpu() calls to the smp_send_stop() code, this covers
the panic() code-path, which doesn't invoke cpuhotplug notifiers.

Because we can interrupt entry-from/exit-to another EL, we can't trust the
value in sp_el0 or x29, even if we interrupted the kernel, in this case
the code in entry.S will save/restore sp_el0 and use the value in
__entry_task.

When we have VMAP stacks we can interrupt the stack-overflow test, which
stirs x0 into sp, meaning we have to have our own VMAP stacks. For now
these are allocated when we probe the interface. Future patches will add
refcounting hooks to allow the arch code to allocate them lazily.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</content>
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The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM standard
for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS.
This is typically used to implement RAS notifications.

Such notifications enter the kernel at the registered entry-point
with the register values of the interrupted CPU context. Because this
is not a CPU exception, it cannot reuse the existing entry code.
(crucially we don't implicitly know which exception level we interrupted),

Add the entry point to entry.S to set us up for calling into C code. If
the event interrupted code that had interrupts masked, we always return
to that location. Otherwise we pretend this was an IRQ, and use SDEI's
complete_and_resume call to return to vbar_el1 + offset.

This allows the kernel to deliver signals to user space processes. For
KVM this triggers the world switch, a quick spin round vcpu_run, then
back into the guest, unless there are pending signals.

Add sdei_mask_local_cpu() calls to the smp_send_stop() code, this covers
the panic() code-path, which doesn't invoke cpuhotplug notifiers.

Because we can interrupt entry-from/exit-to another EL, we can't trust the
value in sp_el0 or x29, even if we interrupted the kernel, in this case
the code in entry.S will save/restore sp_el0 and use the value in
__entry_task.

When we have VMAP stacks we can interrupt the stack-overflow test, which
stirs x0 into sp, meaning we have to have our own VMAP stacks. For now
these are allocated when we probe the interface. Future patches will add
refcounting hooks to allow the arch code to allocate them lazily.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: Add skeleton to harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks</title>
<updated>2018-01-08T18:45:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-03T11:17:58+00:00</published>
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Aliasing attacks against CPU branch predictors can allow an attacker to
redirect speculative control flow on some CPUs and potentially divulge
information from one context to another.

This patch adds initial skeleton code behind a new Kconfig option to
enable implementation-specific mitigations against these attacks for
CPUs that are affected.

Co-developed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Aliasing attacks against CPU branch predictors can allow an attacker to
redirect speculative control flow on some CPUs and potentially divulge
information from one context to another.

This patch adds initial skeleton code behind a new Kconfig option to
enable implementation-specific mitigations against these attacks for
CPUs that are affected.

Co-developed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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