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    Workaround for CVE-2017-5715 on NVIDIA Denver CPUs · b0301467
    Varun Wadekar authored
    
    
    Flush the indirect branch predictor and RSB on entry to EL3 by issuing
    a newly added instruction for Denver CPUs. Support for this operation
    can be determined by comparing bits 19:16 of ID_AFR0_EL1 with 0b0001.
    
    To achieve this without performing any branch instruction, a per-cpu
    vbar is installed which executes the workaround and then branches off
    to the corresponding vector entry in the main vector table. A side
    effect of this change is that the main vbar is configured before any
    reset handling. This is to allow the per-cpu reset function to override
    the vbar setting.
    
    Change-Id: Ief493cd85935bab3cfee0397e856db5101bc8011
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVarun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>
    b0301467
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