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2020-09-29	arm64: Rewrite Spectre-v2 mitigation code	Will Deacon
	The Spectre-v2 mitigation code is pretty unwieldy and hard to maintain. This is largely due to it being written hastily, without much clue as to how things would pan out, and also because it ends up mixing policy and state in such a way that it is very difficult to figure out what's going on. Rewrite the Spectre-v2 mitigation so that it clearly separates state from policy and follows a more structured approach to handling the mitigation. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-09-29	arm64: Introduce separate file for spectre mitigations and reporting	Will Deacon
	The spectre mitigation code is spread over a few different files, which makes it both hard to follow, but also hard to remove it should we want to do that in future. Introduce a new file for housing the spectre mitigations, and populate it with the spectre-v1 reporting code to start with. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>