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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:25:24 +0000 (17:25 +0200)
commit765f802e0d25e19278a0bdc98e985bb2e523451b
tree88ff079fb56b22c612031aa62b52e04a6b47eb71
parent46d5575df8a12baf8fbe947ef7980a39351313e8
x86/bugs: Warn when "ibrs" mitigation is selected on Enhanced IBRS parts

commit eb23b5ef9131e6d65011de349a4d25ef1b3d4314 upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c