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authorPaolo Bonzini <[email protected]>2018-07-02 12:47:38 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2018-07-04 20:49:38 +0200
commita47dd5f06714c844b33f3b5f517b6f3e81ce57b5 (patch)
treed63eac82760e1c3f71bc300ae0cbaade92c8c0c7 /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin
parenta399477e52c17e148746d3ce9a483f681c2aa9a0 (diff)
x86/KVM/VMX: Add L1D flush algorithm
To mitigate the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability it's required to flush L1D on VMENTER to prevent rogue guests from snooping host memory. CPUs will have a new control MSR via a microcode update to flush L1D with a single MSR write, but in the absence of microcode a fallback to a software based flush algorithm is required. Add a software flush loop which is based on code from Intel. [ tglx: Split out from combo patch ] [ bpetkov: Polish the asm code ] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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