cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option

Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation
bugs has become overwhelming for many users.  It's getting more and more
complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given
architecture.  Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to
have its own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability.

Most users fall into a few basic categories:

a) they want all mitigations off;

b) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT enabled even if
   it's vulnerable; or

c) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT disabled if
   vulnerable.

Define a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an
aggregation of existing options:

- mitigations=off: Disable all mitigations.

- mitigations=auto: [default] Enable all the default mitigations, but
  leave SMT enabled, even if it's vulnerable.

- mitigations=auto,nosmt: Enable all the default mitigations, disabling
  SMT if needed by a mitigation.

Currently, these options are placeholders which don't actually do
anything.  They will be fleshed out in upcoming patches.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> (on x86)
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Jon Masters <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Price <[email protected]>
Cc: Phil Auld <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b07a8ef9b7c5055c3a4637c87d07c296d5016fe0.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

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