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authorJiri Kosina <[email protected]>2018-09-25 14:38:55 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2018-09-26 14:26:52 +0200
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x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation
STIBP is a feature provided by certain Intel ucodes / CPUs. This feature (once enabled) prevents cross-hyperthread control of decisions made by indirect branch predictors. Enable this feature if - the CPU is vulnerable to spectre v2 - the CPU supports SMT and has SMT siblings online - spectre_v2 mitigation autoselection is enabled (default) After some previous discussion, this leaves STIBP on all the time, as wrmsr on crossing kernel boundary is a no-no. This could perhaps later be a bit more optimized (like disabling it in NOHZ, experiment with disabling it in idle, etc) if needed. Note that the synchronization of the mask manipulation via newly added spec_ctrl_mutex is currently not strictly needed, as the only updater is already being serialized by cpu_add_remove_lock, but let's make this a little bit more future-proof. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: "WoodhouseDavid" <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]> Cc: "SchauflerCasey" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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