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powerpc/64s: Add barrier_nospec 

A no-op form of ori (or immediate of 0 into r31 and the result stored
in r31) has been re-tasked as a speculation barrier. The instruction
only acts as a barrier on newer machines with appropriate firmware
support. On older CPUs it remains a harmless no-op.

Implement barrier_nospec using this instruction.

mpe: The semantics of the instruction are believed to be that it
prevents execution of subsequent instructions until preceding branches
have been fully resolved and are no longer executing speculatively.
There is no further documentation available at this time.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Michal Suchanek 2018-04-24 14:15:54 +10:00 committed by Michael Ellerman
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commit a6b3964ad7
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
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@ -76,6 +76,21 @@ do { \
___p1; \
})
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
/*
* Prevent execution of subsequent instructions until preceding branches have
* been fully resolved and are no longer executing speculatively.
*/
#define barrier_nospec_asm ori 31,31,0
// This also acts as a compiler barrier due to the memory clobber.
#define barrier_nospec() asm (stringify_in_c(barrier_nospec_asm) ::: "memory")
#else /* !CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 */
#define barrier_nospec_asm
#define barrier_nospec()
#endif
#include <asm-generic/barrier.h>
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_BARRIER_H */