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Commit 639475d4 authored by Marcos Del Sol Vives's avatar Marcos Del Sol Vives Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/CPU: Add support for Vortex CPUs

DM&P devices were not being properly identified, which resulted in
unneeded Spectre/Meltdown mitigations being applied.

The manufacturer states that these devices execute always in-order and
don't support either speculative execution or branch prediction, so
they are not vulnerable to this class of attack. [1]

This is something I've personally tested by a simple timing analysis
on my Vortex86MX CPU, and can confirm it is true.

Add identification for some devices that lack the CPUID product name
call, so they appear properly on /proc/cpuinfo.

¹https://www.ssv-embedded.de/doks/infos/DMP_Ann_180108_Meltdown.pdf



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Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcos Del Sol Vives <marcos@orca.pet>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211017094408.1512158-1-marcos@orca.pet
parent f3f07ae4
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