[PATCH v6 2/4] x86/idle: Disable IBRS when cpu is offline

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Commit bf5835bcdb96 ("intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle")
disables IBRS when the CPU enters long idle. However, when a CPU
becomes offline, the IBRS bit is still set when X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS
is enabled. That will impact the performance of a sibling CPU. Mitigate
this performance impact by clearing all the mitigation bits in SPEC_CTRL
MSR when offline. When the CPU is online again, it will be re-initialized
and so restoring the SPEC_CTRL value isn't needed.

Add a comment to say that native_play_dead() is a __noreturn function,
but it can't be marked as such to avoid confusion about the missing
MSR restoration code.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index e1aa2cd7734b..16f420d49a13 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
 #include <asm/hw_irq.h>
 #include <asm/stackprotector.h>
 #include <asm/sev.h>
+#include <asm/spec-ctrl.h>
 
 /* representing HT siblings of each logical CPU */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(cpumask_var_t, cpu_sibling_map);
@@ -1743,8 +1744,15 @@ void __noreturn hlt_play_dead(void)
 		native_halt();
 }
 
+/*
+ * native_play_dead() is essentially a __noreturn function, but it can't
+ * be marked as such as the compiler may complain about it.
+ */
 void native_play_dead(void)
 {
+	if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS))
+		__update_spec_ctrl(0);
+
 	play_dead_common();
 	tboot_shutdown(TB_SHUTDOWN_WFS);
 
-- 
2.31.1




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