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Thomas Gleixner bc1241700a x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
Now that the mitigations are in place, add a command line parameter to
control the mitigation, a mitigation selector function and a SMT update
mechanism.

This is the minimal straight forward initial implementation which just
provides an always on/off mode. The command line parameter is:

  mds=[full|off]

This is consistent with the existing mitigations for other speculative
hardware vulnerabilities.

The idle invocation is dynamically updated according to the SMT state of
the system similar to the dynamic update of the STIBP mitigation. The idle
mitigation is limited to CPUs which are only affected by MSBDS and not any
other variant, because the other variants cannot be mitigated on SMT
enabled systems.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:14 +01:00
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ABI Documentation/ABI: Correct mlxreg-io KernelVersion for 5.0 2019-01-26 11:30:26 -08:00
EDID Docs/EDID: Calculate CRC while building the code 2018-11-06 07:36:22 -07:00
PCI pci-v4.20-changes 2018-10-25 06:50:48 -07:00
RCU doc: Fix "struction" typo in RCU memory-ordering documentation 2018-11-12 08:56:25 -08:00
accelerators ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs 2018-06-03 20:40:33 +10:00
accounting psi: cgroup support 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
acpi ACPI: property: graph: Update graph documentation to use generic references 2018-07-23 12:44:52 +02:00
admin-guide x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS 2019-03-06 21:52:14 +01:00
aoe
arm Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
arm64 arm64 festive updates for 4.21 2018-12-25 17:41:56 -08:00
auxdisplay Doc: misc-devices: move lcd-panel-cgram.txt to auxdisplay/ 2018-04-12 16:08:02 +02:00
backlight
block block: doc: add slice_idle_us to bfq documentation 2019-01-09 07:38:48 -07:00
blockdev zram: idle writeback fixes and cleanup 2019-01-08 17:15:10 -08:00
bpf bpf, doc: update design qa to reflect kern_version requirement 2019-01-07 15:52:00 -08:00
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core-api XArray: Honour reserved entries in xa_insert 2019-01-06 22:12:58 -05:00
cpu-freq Documentation: cpu-freq: Frequencies aren't always sorted 2018-11-07 13:29:04 +01:00
cpuidle Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle document 2018-12-03 10:03:36 +01:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - remove remnants of internal IV generators 2018-12-23 11:52:45 +08:00
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features Documentation/features: Add csky kernel features 2019-01-07 22:22:16 +08:00
filesystems Documentation: driver core: remove use of BUS_ATTR 2019-01-08 15:17:45 +01:00
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hid HID: doc: fix wrong data structure reference for UHID_OUTPUT 2018-12-18 14:55:22 +01:00
hwmon hwmon: Introduce SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR_{RO, RW, WO} and variants 2018-12-16 15:13:22 -08:00
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laptops platform-drivers-x86 for v4.20-1 2018-11-01 08:42:21 -07:00
leds Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
lightnvm
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networking net: dsa: Remove documentation for port_fdb_prepare 2019-02-23 18:38:00 -08:00
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nvdimm libnvdimm/security: Add documentation for nvdimm security support 2018-12-21 12:44:41 -08:00
nvmem Documentation: nvmem: document cell tables and lookup entries 2018-09-28 15:14:54 +02:00
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pcmcia pcmcia: remove long deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() function 2018-08-18 12:30:42 -07:00
perf Documentation: perf: Add documentation for ThunderX2 PMU uncore driver 2018-12-06 12:29:47 +00:00
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power Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
powerpc powerpc/fadump: Reservationless firmware assisted dump 2018-12-21 11:32:49 +11:00
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process Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x 2019-02-17 15:41:05 -07:00
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riscv perf: riscv: Add Document for Future Porting Guide 2018-06-04 14:02:11 -07:00
s390 Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
scheduler This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20181224 2018-12-28 14:48:06 -08:00
security Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 09:43:14 -08:00
serial Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
sh sh: remove board_time_init() callback 2018-12-18 16:13:04 +01:00
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sphinx-static docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight 2018-10-07 09:16:50 -06:00
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sysctl Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry 2019-02-11 09:10:22 -08:00
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translations Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x 2019-02-17 15:41:05 -07:00
usb Documentation/usb: Fix typo 2018-11-26 16:56:34 +01:00
userspace-api Merge branch 'next-seccomp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 09:48:13 -08:00
virtual Documentation/virtual/kvm: Update URL for AMD SEV API specification 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
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w1 Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00
watchdog watchdog: docs: kernel-api: don't reference removed functions 2018-12-24 13:15:06 +01:00
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x86 x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry 2019-03-06 21:52:13 +01:00
xilinx Documentation: xilinx: Add documentation for eemi APIs 2018-10-09 13:26:05 +02:00
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