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s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog

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Add a boot message if either of the spectre defenses is active.
The message is
    "Spectre V2 mitigation: execute trampolines."
or  "Spectre V2 mitigation: limited branch prediction."

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Martin Schwidefsky 2018-04-27 07:36:59 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 768da41f91
commit 6fbb47b1f9
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arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c
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@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ static int __init nospec_setup_early(char *str)
}
early_param("nospec", nospec_setup_early);
static int __init nospec_report(void)
{
if (IS_ENABLED(CC_USING_EXPOLINE) && !nospec_disable)
pr_info("Spectre V2 mitigation: execute trampolines.\n");
if (__test_facility(82, S390_lowcore.alt_stfle_fac_list))
pr_info("Spectre V2 mitigation: limited branch prediction.\n");
return 0;
}
arch_initcall(nospec_report);
#ifdef CONFIG_EXPOLINE
int nospec_disable = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXPOLINE_OFF);