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Merge tag 'x86-cpu-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

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Pull x86 cache flush updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A reworked version of the opt-in L1D flush mechanism.

  This is a stop gap for potential future speculation related hardware
  vulnerabilities and a mechanism for truly security paranoid
  applications.

  It allows a task to request that the L1D cache is flushed when the
  kernel switches to a different mm. This can be requested via prctl().

  Changes vs the previous versions:

   - Get rid of the software flush fallback

   - Make the handling consistent with other mitigations

   - Kill the task when it ends up on a SMT enabled core which defeats
     the purpose of L1D flushing obviously"

* tag 'x86-cpu-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation: Add L1D flushing Documentation
  x86, prctl: Hook L1D flushing in via prctl
  x86/mm: Prepare for opt-in based L1D flush in switch_mm()
  x86/process: Make room for TIF_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH
  sched: Add task_work callback for paranoid L1D flush
  x86/mm: Refactor cond_ibpb() to support other use cases
  x86/smp: Add a per-cpu view of SMT state
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Linus Torvalds
2021-08-30 15:00:33 -07:00
parent 7d6e3fa87e b7fe54f6c2
commit 0a096f240a
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@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
/* Speculation control variants */
# define PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS 0
# define PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH 1
# define PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH 2
/* Return and control values for PR_SET/GET_SPECULATION_CTRL */
# define PR_SPEC_NOT_AFFECTED 0
# define PR_SPEC_PRCTL (1UL << 0)