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    KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL · d28b387f
    KarimAllah Ahmed authored
    
    
    [ Based on a patch from Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> ]
    
    Add direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL for guests. This is needed for
    guests that will only mitigate Spectre V2 through IBRS+IBPB and will not
    be using a retpoline+IBPB based approach.
    
    To avoid the overhead of saving and restoring the MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL for
    guests that do not actually use the MSR, only start saving and restoring
    when a non-zero is written to it.
    
    No attempt is made to handle STIBP here, intentionally. Filtering STIBP
    may be added in a future patch, which may require trapping all writes
    if we don't want to pass it through directly to the guest.
    
    [dwmw2: Clean up CPUID bits, save/restore manually, handle reset]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDarren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
    Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
    Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
    Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
    Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517522386-18410-5-git-send-email-karahmed@amazon.de
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