x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:14:15 +0000 (16:14 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:35:58 +0000 (12:35 +0100)
commit31fd9eda7f69e0be0d0410682fc0d4cd76fe3699
treeedf322f7d3302527247b23b181243c0c5902b058
parent6c5e49150a51b0210710246b61a972300a274dcd
x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support

(cherry picked from commit 20ffa1caecca4db8f79fe665acdeaa5af815a24d)

Expose indirect_branch_prediction_barrier() for use in subsequent patches.

[ tglx: Add IBPB status to spectre_v2 sysfs file ]

Co-developed-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516896855-7642-8-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c