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Thomas Gleixner 885f82bfbc x86/process: Allow runtime control of Speculative Store Bypass
The Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability can be mitigated with the
Reduced Data Speculation (RDS) feature. To allow finer grained control of
this eventually expensive mitigation a per task mitigation control is
required.

Add a new TIF_RDS flag and put it into the group of TIF flags which are
evaluated for mismatch in switch_to(). If these bits differ in the previous
and the next task, then the slow path function __switch_to_xtra() is
invoked. Implement the TIF_RDS dependent mitigation control in the slow
path.

If the prctl for controlling Speculative Store Bypass is disabled or no
task uses the prctl then there is no overhead in the switch_to() fast
path.

Update the KVM related speculation control functions to take TID_RDS into
account as well.

Based on a patch from Tim Chen. Completely rewritten.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2018-05-03 13:55:50 +02:00
arch x86/process: Allow runtime control of Speculative Store Bypass 2018-05-03 13:55:50 +02:00
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Documentation prctl: Add speculation control prctls 2018-05-03 13:55:50 +02:00
drivers x86/bugs: Expose /sys/../spec_store_bypass 2018-05-03 13:55:47 +02:00
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fs Fix misc. bugs and a regression for ext4. 2018-04-28 20:07:21 -07:00
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lib Driver core fixes for 4.17-rc3 2018-04-27 10:12:20 -07:00
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tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-04-29 09:36:22 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of AFFS 2018-04-28 10:30:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux v4.17-rc3 2018-04-29 14:17:42 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.