This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-xen-zero-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl-before-suspend.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 71c208dd54ab971036d83ff6d9837bae4976e623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:08:18 +0100 Subject: x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> commit 71c208dd54ab971036d83ff6d9837bae4976e623 upstream. Older Xen versions (4.5 and before) might have problems migrating pv guests with MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL having a non-zero value. So before suspending zero that MSR and restore it after being resumed. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226140818.4849-1-jgross@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/xen/suspend.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/suspend.c @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/tick.h> +#include <linux/percpu-defs.h> #include <xen/xen.h> #include <xen/interface/xen.h> #include <xen/grant_table.h> #include <xen/events.h> +#include <asm/cpufeatures.h> +#include <asm/msr-index.h> #include <asm/xen/hypercall.h> #include <asm/xen/page.h> #include <asm/fixmap.h> @@ -15,6 +18,8 @@ #include "mmu.h" #include "pmu.h" +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, spec_ctrl); + void xen_arch_pre_suspend(void) { xen_save_time_memory_area(); @@ -35,6 +40,9 @@ void xen_arch_post_suspend(int cancelled static void xen_vcpu_notify_restore(void *data) { + if (xen_pv_domain() && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL)) + wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, this_cpu_read(spec_ctrl)); + /* Boot processor notified via generic timekeeping_resume() */ if (smp_processor_id() == 0) return; @@ -44,7 +52,15 @@ static void xen_vcpu_notify_restore(void static void xen_vcpu_notify_suspend(void *data) { + u64 tmp; + tick_suspend_local(); + + if (xen_pv_domain() && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL)) { + rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, tmp); + this_cpu_write(spec_ctrl, tmp); + wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0); + } } void xen_arch_resume(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jgross@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/x86-xen-zero-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl-before-suspend.patch