4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au
commit eb0a2d2620ae431c543963c8c7f08f597366fc60 upstream.
Some versions of firmware will have a setting that can be configured to disable the RFI flush, add support for it.
Fixes: 6e032b350cd1 ("powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush settings") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ static void pnv_setup_rfi_flush(void) if (np && of_property_read_bool(np, "disabled")) enable--;
+ np = of_get_child_by_name(fw_features, "speculation-policy-favor-security"); + if (np && of_property_read_bool(np, "disabled")) + enable = 0; + of_node_put(np); of_node_put(fw_features); }