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arm64: kpti: Whitelist Cortex-A CPUs that don't implement the CSV3 field
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:47:38 +0000 (13:47 +0000)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:14:21 +0000 (14:14 +0000)
commit2a355ec25729053bb9a1a89b6c1d1cdd6c3b3fb1
treeeb156e26883d666f26909dfa50d3d206848f885f
parentb47f515bdcd4e22b0b87141157c9ee8bc7c9bb98
arm64: kpti: Whitelist Cortex-A CPUs that don't implement the CSV3 field

While the CSV3 field of the ID_AA64_PFR0 CPU ID register can be checked
to see if a CPU is susceptible to Meltdown and therefore requires kpti
to be enabled, existing CPUs do not implement this field.

We therefore whitelist all unaffected Cortex-A CPUs that do not implement
the CSV3 field.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c