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Merge branch 'spectre' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM spectre fix from Russell King:
 "Exynos folk noticed that CPU hotplug wasn't working with their kernel
  configuration, and have tested this as fixing the problem"

* 'spectre' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: ensure that processor vtables is not lost after boot
Linus Torvalds 6 years ago
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arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S

@@ -274,6 +274,13 @@
 	.endm
 
 .macro define_processor_functions name:req, dabort:req, pabort:req, nommu=0, suspend=0, bugs=0
+/*
+ * If we are building for big.Little with branch predictor hardening,
+ * we need the processor function tables to remain available after boot.
+ */
+#if 1 // defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+	.section ".rodata"
+#endif
 	.type	\name\()_processor_functions, #object
 	.align 2
 ENTRY(\name\()_processor_functions)
@@ -309,6 +316,9 @@ ENTRY(\name\()_processor_functions)
 	.endif
 
 	.size	\name\()_processor_functions, . - \name\()_processor_functions
+#if 1 // defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+	.previous
+#endif
 .endm
 
 .macro define_cache_functions name:req