STIBP is not needed when enhanced IBRS is used for Spectre V2 mitigation. A CPU feature flag to indicate that enhanced IBRS is used will be handy for skipping STIBP for this case. Add X86_FEATURE_USE_IBRS_ENHANCED feature bit to indicate enhanced IBRS is used for Spectre V2 mitigation. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h index 28c4a50..fe8e064 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_ZEN ( 7*32+28) /* "" CPU is AMD family 0x17 (Zen) */ #define X86_FEATURE_L1TF_PTEINV ( 7*32+29) /* "" L1TF workaround PTE inversion */ #define X86_FEATURE_IBRS_ENHANCED ( 7*32+30) /* Enhanced IBRS */ +#define X86_FEATURE_USE_IBRS_ENHANCED ( 7*32+31) /* "" Enhanced IBRS enabled */ /* Virtualization flags: Linux defined, word 8 */ #define X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW ( 8*32+ 0) /* Intel TPR Shadow */ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 91a754a..3a6f13b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mitigation(void) /* Force it so VMEXIT will restore correctly */ x86_spec_ctrl_base |= SPEC_CTRL_IBRS; wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, x86_spec_ctrl_base); + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_USE_IBRS_ENHANCED); goto specv2_set_mode; } if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)) -- 2.9.4
