x86/bugs: Warn when "ibrs" mitigation is selected on Enhanced IBRS parts
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:15:35 +0000 (16:15 -0700)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:24:53 +0000 (19:24 +0200)
commiteb23b5ef9131e6d65011de349a4d25ef1b3d4314
treeecf5304ceb8f67c1a18be0710c4950efdea4819e
parent65cdf0d623bedf0e069bb64ed52e8bb20105e2ba
x86/bugs: Warn when "ibrs" mitigation is selected on Enhanced IBRS parts

IBRS mitigation for spectre_v2 forces write to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL at
every kernel entry/exit. On Enhanced IBRS parts setting
MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL[IBRS] only once at boot is sufficient. MSR writes at
every kernel entry/exit incur unnecessary performance loss.

When Enhanced IBRS feature is present, print a warning about this
unnecessary performance loss.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2a5eaf54583c2bfe0edc4fea64006656256cca17.1657814857.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c