x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1884564 [ Upstream commit 20c3a2c3 ] Different AMD processors may have different implementations of STIBP. When STIBP is conditionally enabled, some implementations would benefit from having STIBP always on instead of toggling the STIBP bit through MSR writes. This preference is advertised through a CPUID feature bit. When conditional STIBP support is requested at boot and the CPU advertises STIBP always-on mode as preferred, switch to STIBP "on" support. To show that this transition has occurred, create a new spectre_v2_user_mitigation value and a new spectre_v2_user_strings message. The new mitigation value is used in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() to print the new mitigation message as well as to return a new string from stibp_state(). Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181213230352.6937.74943.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.netSigned-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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