s390: run user space and KVM guests with modified branch prediction

Define TIF_ISOLATE_BP and TIF_ISOLATE_BP_GUEST and add the necessary
plumbing in entry.S to be able to run user space and KVM guests with
limited branch prediction.

To switch a user space process to limited branch prediction the
s390_isolate_bp() function has to be call, and to run a vCPU of a KVM
guest associated with the current task with limited branch prediction
call s390_isolate_bp_guest().

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-16 07:36:46 +01:00
parent d768bd892f
commit 6b73044b2b
4 changed files with 71 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ extern void memcpy_absolute(void *, void *, size_t);
memcpy_absolute(&(dest), &__tmp, sizeof(__tmp)); \
} while (0)
extern int s390_isolate_bp(void);
extern int s390_isolate_bp_guest(void);
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __ASM_S390_PROCESSOR_H */