s390: add options to change branch prediction behaviour for the kernel

Add the PPA instruction to the system entry and exit path to switch
the kernel to a different branch prediction behaviour. The instructions
are added via CPU alternatives and can be disabled with the "nospec"
or the "nobp=0" kernel parameter. If the default behaviour selected
with CONFIG_KERNEL_NOBP is set to "n" then the "nobp=1" parameter can be
used to enable the changed kernel branch prediction.

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/s390/kernel/alternative.c
index 1abf4f3..2247613 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -15,6 +15,29 @@ static int __init disable_alternative_instructions(char *str)
 
 early_param("noaltinstr", disable_alternative_instructions);
 
+static int __init nobp_setup_early(char *str)
+{
+	bool enabled;
+	int rc;
+
+	rc = kstrtobool(str, &enabled);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+	if (enabled && test_facility(82))
+		__set_facility(82, S390_lowcore.alt_stfle_fac_list);
+	else
+		__clear_facility(82, S390_lowcore.alt_stfle_fac_list);
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("nobp", nobp_setup_early);
+
+static int __init nospec_setup_early(char *str)
+{
+	__clear_facility(82, S390_lowcore.alt_stfle_fac_list);
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("nospec", nospec_setup_early);
+
 struct brcl_insn {
 	u16 opc;
 	s32 disp;