KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
Having a paravirt indirect call in the IBRS restore path is not a good idea, since we are trying to protect from speculative execution of bogus indirect branch targets. It is also slower, so use native_wrmsrl() on the vmentry path too. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d28b387f Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-2-pbonzini@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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