x86/bugs: Warn when "ibrs" mitigation is selected on Enhanced IBRS parts
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:56:03 +0000 (13:56 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Nov 2022 18:14:46 +0000 (19:14 +0100)
commit47e5ac730573003f41ff3637884dbf874c89d1d9
treebd258bdb4ec6e2ab6712879da9dc8fbe0f689006
parentf39022278a0084e596060c4d1a7282e5510c9d4b
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: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c