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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
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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