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Thomas Lendacky 9c15bda922 x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode
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Different AMD processors may have different implementations of STIBP.
When STIBP is conditionally enabled, some implementations would benefit
from having STIBP always on instead of toggling the STIBP bit through MSR
writes. This preference is advertised through a CPUID feature bit.

When conditional STIBP support is requested at boot and the CPU advertises
STIBP always-on mode as preferred, switch to STIBP "on" support. To show
that this transition has occurred, create a new spectre_v2_user_mitigation
value and a new spectre_v2_user_strings message. The new mitigation value
is used in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() to print the new mitigation
message as well as to return a new string from stibp_state().

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181213230352.6937.74943.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-06-22 09:05:04 +02:00
arch x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode 2020-06-22 09:05:04 +02:00
block block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body 2020-04-17 10:48:42 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-20 08:18:46 +02:00
Documentation x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list 2020-06-10 21:35:01 +02:00
drivers crypto: cavium/nitrox - Fix 'nitrox_get_first_device()' when ndevlist is fully iterated 2020-06-22 09:05:03 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct() 2020-06-22 09:05:03 +02:00
include KVM: x86: Fix APIC page invalidation race 2020-06-22 09:05:04 +02:00
init x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:18:49 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:18:40 +02:00
kernel sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads 2020-06-22 09:05:00 +02:00
lib lib: Reduce user_access_begin() boundaries in strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() 2020-06-22 09:04:59 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects 2020-06-22 09:05:01 +02:00
net bridge: Avoid infinite loop when suppressing NS messages with invalid options 2020-06-22 09:04:58 +02:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix build error 2020-06-03 08:19:31 +02:00
scripts gcc-common.h: Update for GCC 10 2020-05-27 17:37:30 +02:00
security mm: add kvfree_sensitive() for freeing sensitive data objects 2020-06-22 09:05:01 +02:00
sound ALSA: pcm: disallow linking stream to itself 2020-06-22 09:05:03 +02:00
tools perf probe: Accept the instance number of kretprobe event 2020-06-22 09:05:00 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt KVM: x86: Fix APIC page invalidation race 2020-06-22 09:05:04 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:38:49 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.128 2020-06-10 21:35:02 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.