Commit 2176bba5 authored by Nicolai Stange's avatar Nicolai Stange Committed by Stefan Bader

x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16

An upcoming patch will extend KVM's L1TF mitigation in conditional mode
to also cover interrupts after VMEXITs. For tracking those, stores to a
new per-cpu flag from interrupt handlers will become necessary.

In order to improve cache locality, this new flag will be added to x86's
irq_cpustat_t.

Make some space available there by shrinking the ->softirq_pending bitfield
from 32 to 16 bits: the number of bits actually used is only NR_SOFTIRQS,
i.e. 10.
Suggested-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

CVE-2018-3620
CVE-2018-3646
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
parent f7329c08
......@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/irq.h>
typedef struct {
unsigned int __softirq_pending;
u16 __softirq_pending;
unsigned int __nmi_count; /* arch dependent */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
unsigned int apic_timer_irqs; /* arch dependent */
......
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