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, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 0105ce28e246..d514e25095c2 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -540,6 +540,23 @@ config ARCH_RANDOM
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config KERNEL_NOBP
+	def_bool n
+	prompt "Enable modified branch prediction for the kernel by default"
+	help
+	  If this option is selected the kernel will switch to a modified
+	  branch prediction mode if the firmware interface is available.
+	  The modified branch prediction mode improves the behaviour in
+	  regard to speculative execution.
+
+	  With the option enabled the kernel parameter "nobp=0" or "nospec"
+	  can be used to run the kernel in the normal branch prediction mode.
+
+	  With the option disabled the modified branch prediction mode is
+	  enabled with the "nobp=1" kernel parameter.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 endmenu
 
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