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powerpc/64s: Add barrier_nospec
authorMichal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:15:54 +0000 (14:15 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Aug 2018 05:47:37 +0000 (07:47 +0200)
commit50a5991e800df7b907f62820c345b893236522de
tree797fbc901b7918f15ac066c433511eeb3137f246
parentda3fbfc559f4dd9af398eb6267ef792474469cf6
powerpc/64s: Add barrier_nospec

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A no-op form of ori (or immediate of 0 into r31 and the result stored
in r31) has been re-tasked as a speculation barrier. The instruction
only acts as a barrier on newer machines with appropriate firmware
support. On older CPUs it remains a harmless no-op.

Implement barrier_nospec using this instruction.

mpe: The semantics of the instruction are believed to be that it
prevents execution of subsequent instructions until preceding branches
have been fully resolved and are no longer executing speculatively.
There is no further documentation available at this time.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h