x86/bugs: Reset speculation control settings on init
Currently, x86_spec_ctrl_base is read at boot time and speculative bits are set if Kconfig items are enabled. For example, IBRS is enabled if CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY is configured, etc. These MSR bits are not cleared if the mitigations are disabled. This is a problem when kexec-ing a kernel that has the mitigation disabled from a kernel that has the mitigation enabled. In this case, the MSR bits are not cleared during the new kernel boot. As a result, this might have some performance degradation that is hard to pinpoint. This problem does not happen if the machine is (hard) rebooted because the bit will be cleared by default. [ bp: Massage. ] Suggested-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128153148.1129350-1-leitao@debian.org
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