diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
index 0d289240b6ca110ab961a280ddd20fc1c567f2a4..775cac3c02bb0a31facb970e16feef83f86c6632 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 
 extern unsigned int processor_id;
+struct proc_info_list *lookup_processor(u32 midr);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CP15
 #define read_cpuid(reg)							\
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
index e25f4392e1b2868446de858701d408aaaee26eab..e1b6f280ab088fb0b8ac59b6ceb3543606c97e01 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct mm_struct;
 /*
  * Don't change this structure - ASM code relies on it.
  */
-extern struct processor {
+struct processor {
 	/* MISC
 	 * get data abort address/flags
 	 */
@@ -79,9 +79,13 @@ extern struct processor {
 	unsigned int suspend_size;
 	void (*do_suspend)(void *);
 	void (*do_resume)(void *);
-} processor;
+};
 
 #ifndef MULTI_CPU
+static inline void init_proc_vtable(const struct processor *p)
+{
+}
+
 extern void cpu_proc_init(void);
 extern void cpu_proc_fin(void);
 extern int cpu_do_idle(void);
@@ -98,17 +102,50 @@ extern void cpu_reset(unsigned long addr, bool hvc) __attribute__((noreturn));
 extern void cpu_do_suspend(void *);
 extern void cpu_do_resume(void *);
 #else
-#define cpu_proc_init			processor._proc_init
-#define cpu_proc_fin			processor._proc_fin
-#define cpu_reset			processor.reset
-#define cpu_do_idle			processor._do_idle
-#define cpu_dcache_clean_area		processor.dcache_clean_area
-#define cpu_set_pte_ext			processor.set_pte_ext
-#define cpu_do_switch_mm		processor.switch_mm
 
-/* These three are private to arch/arm/kernel/suspend.c */
-#define cpu_do_suspend			processor.do_suspend
-#define cpu_do_resume			processor.do_resume
+extern struct processor processor;
+#if defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+#include <linux/smp.h>
+/*
+ * This can't be a per-cpu variable because we need to access it before
+ * per-cpu has been initialised.  We have a couple of functions that are
+ * called in a pre-emptible context, and so can't use smp_processor_id()
+ * there, hence PROC_TABLE().  We insist in init_proc_vtable() that the
+ * function pointers for these are identical across all CPUs.
+ */
+extern struct processor *cpu_vtable[];
+#define PROC_VTABLE(f)			cpu_vtable[smp_processor_id()]->f
+#define PROC_TABLE(f)			cpu_vtable[0]->f
+static inline void init_proc_vtable(const struct processor *p)
+{
+	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	*cpu_vtable[cpu] = *p;
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_vtable[cpu]->dcache_clean_area !=
+		     cpu_vtable[0]->dcache_clean_area);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_vtable[cpu]->set_pte_ext !=
+		     cpu_vtable[0]->set_pte_ext);
+}
+#else
+#define PROC_VTABLE(f)			processor.f
+#define PROC_TABLE(f)			processor.f
+static inline void init_proc_vtable(const struct processor *p)
+{
+	processor = *p;
+}
+#endif
+
+#define cpu_proc_init			PROC_VTABLE(_proc_init)
+#define cpu_check_bugs			PROC_VTABLE(check_bugs)
+#define cpu_proc_fin			PROC_VTABLE(_proc_fin)
+#define cpu_reset			PROC_VTABLE(reset)
+#define cpu_do_idle			PROC_VTABLE(_do_idle)
+#define cpu_dcache_clean_area		PROC_TABLE(dcache_clean_area)
+#define cpu_set_pte_ext			PROC_TABLE(set_pte_ext)
+#define cpu_do_switch_mm		PROC_VTABLE(switch_mm)
+
+/* These two are private to arch/arm/kernel/suspend.c */
+#define cpu_do_suspend			PROC_VTABLE(do_suspend)
+#define cpu_do_resume			PROC_VTABLE(do_resume)
 #endif
 
 extern void cpu_resume(void);
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c b/arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c
index 7be5113101915cd81a5558f45238041138fb5a58..d41d3598e5e541115c08f9b81b26fd187a7fe7af 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 void check_other_bugs(void)
 {
 #ifdef MULTI_CPU
-	if (processor.check_bugs)
-		processor.check_bugs();
+	if (cpu_check_bugs)
+		cpu_check_bugs();
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S
index 6e0375e7db055bc82cf0674b37b74646e2d64ff0..997b02302c3145f5ac380ae18823eba50d916ac7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ __mmap_switched_data:
 #endif
 	.size	__mmap_switched_data, . - __mmap_switched_data
 
+	__FINIT
+	.text
+
 /*
  * This provides a C-API version of __lookup_processor_type
  */
@@ -156,9 +159,6 @@ ENTRY(lookup_processor_type)
 	ldmfd	sp!, {r4 - r6, r9, pc}
 ENDPROC(lookup_processor_type)
 
-	__FINIT
-	.text
-
 /*
  * Read processor ID register (CP#15, CR0), and look up in the linker-built
  * supported processor list.  Note that we can't use the absolute addresses
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index ac7e08886863cfa74855e5b91c4f436e85da1e0a..375b13f7e780663eddb3f04e632751064a6b5bfd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(elf_hwcap2);
 
 #ifdef MULTI_CPU
 struct processor processor __ro_after_init;
+#if defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+struct processor *cpu_vtable[NR_CPUS] = {
+	[0] = &processor,
+};
+#endif
 #endif
 #ifdef MULTI_TLB
 struct cpu_tlb_fns cpu_tlb __ro_after_init;
@@ -666,28 +671,33 @@ static void __init smp_build_mpidr_hash(void)
 }
 #endif
 
-static void __init setup_processor(void)
+/*
+ * locate processor in the list of supported processor types.  The linker
+ * builds this table for us from the entries in arch/arm/mm/proc-*.S
+ */
+struct proc_info_list *lookup_processor(u32 midr)
 {
-	struct proc_info_list *list;
+	struct proc_info_list *list = lookup_processor_type(midr);
 
-	/*
-	 * locate processor in the list of supported processor
-	 * types.  The linker builds this table for us from the
-	 * entries in arch/arm/mm/proc-*.S
-	 */
-	list = lookup_processor_type(read_cpuid_id());
 	if (!list) {
-		pr_err("CPU configuration botched (ID %08x), unable to continue.\n",
-		       read_cpuid_id());
-		while (1);
+		pr_err("CPU%u: configuration botched (ID %08x), CPU halted\n",
+		       smp_processor_id(), midr);
+		while (1)
+		/* can't use cpu_relax() here as it may require MMU setup */;
 	}
 
+	return list;
+}
+
+static void __init setup_processor(void)
+{
+	unsigned int midr = read_cpuid_id();
+	struct proc_info_list *list = lookup_processor(midr);
+
 	cpu_name = list->cpu_name;
 	__cpu_architecture = __get_cpu_architecture();
 
-#ifdef MULTI_CPU
-	processor = *list->proc;
-#endif
+	init_proc_vtable(list->proc);
 #ifdef MULTI_TLB
 	cpu_tlb = *list->tlb;
 #endif
@@ -699,7 +709,7 @@ static void __init setup_processor(void)
 #endif
 
 	pr_info("CPU: %s [%08x] revision %d (ARMv%s), cr=%08lx\n",
-		cpu_name, read_cpuid_id(), read_cpuid_id() & 15,
+		list->cpu_name, midr, midr & 15,
 		proc_arch[cpu_architecture()], get_cr());
 
 	snprintf(init_utsname()->machine, __NEW_UTS_LEN + 1, "%s%c",
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 0978282d5fc27a7c4a5e6b0e274da8bfc4c14c8d..12a6172263c0b057a94f2041accf581088374fb0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
+#include <asm/procinfo.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -102,6 +103,30 @@ static unsigned long get_arch_pgd(pgd_t *pgd)
 #endif
 }
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_BIG_LITTLE) && defined(CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR)
+static int secondary_biglittle_prepare(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	if (!cpu_vtable[cpu])
+		cpu_vtable[cpu] = kzalloc(sizeof(*cpu_vtable[cpu]), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	return cpu_vtable[cpu] ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static void secondary_biglittle_init(void)
+{
+	init_proc_vtable(lookup_processor(read_cpuid_id())->proc);
+}
+#else
+static int secondary_biglittle_prepare(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void secondary_biglittle_init(void)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -109,6 +134,10 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
 	if (!smp_ops.smp_boot_secondary)
 		return -ENOSYS;
 
+	ret = secondary_biglittle_prepare(cpu);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	/*
 	 * We need to tell the secondary core where to find
 	 * its stack and the page tables.
@@ -359,6 +388,8 @@ asmlinkage void secondary_start_kernel(void)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = &init_mm;
 	unsigned int cpu;
 
+	secondary_biglittle_init();
+
 	/*
 	 * The identity mapping is uncached (strongly ordered), so
 	 * switch away from it before attempting any exclusive accesses.
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c
index 5544b82a2e7a553d015e23d77a9017682dd91f11..9a07916af8dd27dd021781c06451340ce6d03032 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ static void cpu_v7_spectre_init(void)
 	case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A17:
 	case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A73:
 	case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A75:
-		if (processor.switch_mm != cpu_v7_bpiall_switch_mm)
-			goto bl_error;
 		per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn, cpu) =
 			harden_branch_predictor_bpiall;
 		spectre_v2_method = "BPIALL";
@@ -61,8 +59,6 @@ static void cpu_v7_spectre_init(void)
 
 	case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A15:
 	case ARM_CPU_PART_BRAHMA_B15:
-		if (processor.switch_mm != cpu_v7_iciallu_switch_mm)
-			goto bl_error;
 		per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn, cpu) =
 			harden_branch_predictor_iciallu;
 		spectre_v2_method = "ICIALLU";
@@ -88,11 +84,9 @@ static void cpu_v7_spectre_init(void)
 					  ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1, &res);
 			if ((int)res.a0 != 0)
 				break;
-			if (processor.switch_mm != cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm && cpu)
-				goto bl_error;
 			per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn, cpu) =
 				call_hvc_arch_workaround_1;
-			processor.switch_mm = cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm;
+			cpu_do_switch_mm = cpu_v7_hvc_switch_mm;
 			spectre_v2_method = "hypervisor";
 			break;
 
@@ -101,11 +95,9 @@ static void cpu_v7_spectre_init(void)
 					  ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1, &res);
 			if ((int)res.a0 != 0)
 				break;
-			if (processor.switch_mm != cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm && cpu)
-				goto bl_error;
 			per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn, cpu) =
 				call_smc_arch_workaround_1;
-			processor.switch_mm = cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm;
+			cpu_do_switch_mm = cpu_v7_smc_switch_mm;
 			spectre_v2_method = "firmware";
 			break;
 
@@ -119,11 +111,6 @@ static void cpu_v7_spectre_init(void)
 	if (spectre_v2_method)
 		pr_info("CPU%u: Spectre v2: using %s workaround\n",
 			smp_processor_id(), spectre_v2_method);
-	return;
-
-bl_error:
-	pr_err("CPU%u: Spectre v2: incorrect context switching function, system vulnerable\n",
-		cpu);
 }
 #else
 static void cpu_v7_spectre_init(void)