x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode
authorThomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:03:54 +0000 (23:03 +0000)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:13:33 +0000 (14:13 +0100)
commit20c3a2c33e9fdc82e9e8e8d2a6445b3256d20191
tree683120452a83e67a359695badcf862cdfe9c1504
parent5b5e4d623ec8a34689df98e42d038a3b594d2ff9
x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode

Different AMD processors may have different implementations of STIBP.
When STIBP is conditionally enabled, some implementations would benefit
from having STIBP always on instead of toggling the STIBP bit through MSR
writes. This preference is advertised through a CPUID feature bit.

When conditional STIBP support is requested at boot and the CPU advertises
STIBP always-on mode as preferred, switch to STIBP "on" support. To show
that this transition has occurred, create a new spectre_v2_user_mitigation
value and a new spectre_v2_user_strings message. The new mitigation value
is used in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() to print the new mitigation
message as well as to return a new string from stibp_state().

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181213230352.6937.74943.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c