The AArch32 instruction sets prior to Armv7 do not define the ISB and
DSB instructions that are needed to form a speculation barrier. While
I do not know of any instances of cores based on those instruction
sets being vulnerable to speculative side channel attacks it is
possible to run code built for those ISAs on more recent hardware
where they would become vulnerable.
This patch works around this by using a library call added to libgcc.
That code can then take any platform-specific actions necessary to
ensure safety.
For the moment I've only handled two cases: the library code being
built for armv7 or later anyway and running on Linux.
On Linux we can handle this by calling the kernel function that will
flush a small amount of cache. Such a sequence ends with a ISB+DSB
sequence if running on an Armv7 or later CPU.
gcc:
PR target/86951
* config/arm/arm-protos.h (arm_emit_speculation_barrier): New
prototype.
* config/arm/arm.c (speculation_barrier_libfunc): New static
variable.
(arm_init_libfuncs): Initialize it.
(arm_emit_speculation_barrier): New function.
* config/arm/arm.md (speculation_barrier): Call
arm_emit_speculation_barrier for architectures that do not have
DSB or ISB.
(speculation_barrier_insn): Only match on Armv7 or later.
libgcc:
PR target/86951
* config/arm/lib1funcs.asm (speculation_barrier): New function.
* config/arm/t-arm (LIB1ASMFUNCS): Add it to list of functions
to build.
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