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    x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode · 20c3a2c3
    Thomas Lendacky authored
    
    
    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: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas 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.net
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