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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:24:10 +0000 (10:24 +0200)
commit5eaa7ef6506313ca424292ae9f1b8e50c54e6488
tree56afc7b5d2e9fdc51c49993624ff036180bcf582
parent669ce559aec775e9c26ace076d650e7bbb21e80a
x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode

[ Upstream commit 20c3a2c33e9fdc82e9e8e8d2a6445b3256d20191 ]

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
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c