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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-02-20 09:40:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-03-06 21:52:15 +0100 |
| commit | 22dd8365088b6403630b82423cf906491859b65e (patch) | |
| tree | 117ad21ac265302596d4a11c35625312f2c25c0a /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS (diff) | |
| download | linux-22dd8365088b6403630b82423cf906491859b65e.tar.xz linux-22dd8365088b6403630b82423cf906491859b65e.zip | |
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
In virtualized environments it can happen that the host has the microcode
update which utilizes the VERW instruction to clear CPU buffers, but the
hypervisor is not yet updated to expose the X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR CPUID bit
to guests.
Introduce an internal mitigation mode VMWERV which enables the invocation
of the CPU buffer clearing even if X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR is not set. If the
system has no updated microcode this results in a pointless execution of
the VERW instruction wasting a few CPU cycles. If the microcode is updated,
but not exposed to a guest then the CPU buffers will be cleared.
That said: Virtual Machines Will Eventually Receive Vaccine
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index 1f0295783325..aca1ef8cc79f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ extern enum l1tf_mitigations l1tf_mitigation; enum mds_mitigations { MDS_MITIGATION_OFF, MDS_MITIGATION_FULL, + MDS_MITIGATION_VMWERV, }; #endif /* _ASM_X86_PROCESSOR_H */ |