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    Workaround for CVE-2017-5715 on Cortex A57 and A72 · f62ad322
    Dimitris Papastamos authored
    
    
    Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by disabling
    and enabling the MMU.  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.
    
    This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs.
    
    Change-Id: I97788d38463a5840a410e3cea85ed297a1678265
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
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