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From:   Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Subject: arm: v4.18-rc5 with cpuidle on TC2 (A7 boot) spectre v2 issue
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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:42:50 +0200
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Hi,

running v4.18-rc5 (plus still missing "power: vexpress: fix corruption 
in notifier registration", otherwise I get this rcu_sched stall issue) 
on TC2 (A7 boot) with vanilla multi_v7_defconfig plus 
CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUIDLE=y gives me continuous:

...
  CPUX: Spectre v2: incorrect context switching function, system vulnerable
...

messages.

Work around is to disable CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR.

-- Dietmar