x86/bugs: Read SPEC_CTRL MSR during boot and re-use reserved bits
The 336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf refers to all the other bits as reserved. The Intel SDM glossary defines reserved as implementation specific - aka unknown. As such at bootup this must be taken it into account and proper masking for the bits in use applied. A copy of this document is available at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511 [ tglx: Made x86_spec_ctrl_base __ro_after_init ] Suggested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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