------- Comment From [email protected] 2019-04-10 23:12 EDT-------
Hi Manoj,

Looks good, I think, here's some output:
mranweil@ltc-wspoon5:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.15.0-48-generic (buildd@bos02-ppc64el-015) (gcc version 7.3.0 
(Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)) #51~lp1822870+build.2-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 10 
21:12:08 UTC 2019
mranweil@ltc-wspoon5:~$ dmesg |grep count-cache-flush
[    0.000000] count-cache-flush: hardware assisted flush sequence enabled
mranweil@ltc-wspoon5:~$ grep -H . 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Software count 
cache flush (hardware acceleratd)

29:mon> di $_switch 20
<snip>
c00000000000db54  f8010170      std     r0,368(r1)
c00000000000db58  7ee00026      mfcr    r23
c00000000000db5c  fae101a0      std     r23,416(r1)
c00000000000db60  f8230000      std     r1,0(r3)
c00000000000db64  4bffdb1d      bl      c00000000000b680        # 
flush_count_cache+0x0/0x2480
c00000000000db68  3cc06000      lis     r6,24576
29:mon> di $flush_count_cache 4d
c00000000000b680  7d2802a6      mflr    r9
c00000000000b684  48000005      bl      c00000000000b688        # 
flush_count_cache+0x8/0x2480
...
c00000000000b784  4800001c      b       c00000000000b7a0        # 
flush_count_cache+0x120/0x2480
c00000000000b788  60000000      nop
...
c00000000000b7a0  7d2803a6      mtlr    r9
c00000000000b7a4  39207fff      li      r9,32767
c00000000000b7a8  7d2903a6      mtctr   r9
c00000000000b7ac  4c400420      bcctr-  2,lt
c00000000000b7b0  4e800020      blr
29:mon>

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  Backport support for software count cache flush Spectre v2 mitigation.
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