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s390: run user space and KVM guests with modified branch prediction

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Define TIF_ISOLATE_BP and TIF_ISOLATE_BP_GUEST and add the necessary
plumbing in entry.S to be able to run user space and KVM guests with
limited branch prediction.

To switch a user space process to limited branch prediction the
s390_isolate_bp() function has to be call, and to run a vCPU of a KVM
guest associated with the current task with limited branch prediction
call s390_isolate_bp_guest().

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-16 07:36:46 +01:00
parent d768bd892f
commit 6b73044b2b
4 changed files with 71 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h
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@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src);
#define TIF_GUARDED_STORAGE 4 /* load guarded storage control block */
#define TIF_PATCH_PENDING 5 /* pending live patching update */
#define TIF_PGSTE 6 /* New mm's will use 4K page tables */
#define TIF_ISOLATE_BP 8 /* Run process with isolated BP */
#define TIF_ISOLATE_BP_GUEST 9 /* Run KVM guests with isolated BP */
#define TIF_31BIT 16 /* 32bit process */
#define TIF_MEMDIE 17 /* is terminating due to OOM killer */
@@ -78,6 +80,8 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src);
#define _TIF_UPROBE _BITUL(TIF_UPROBE)
#define _TIF_GUARDED_STORAGE _BITUL(TIF_GUARDED_STORAGE)
#define _TIF_PATCH_PENDING _BITUL(TIF_PATCH_PENDING)
#define _TIF_ISOLATE_BP _BITUL(TIF_ISOLATE_BP)
#define _TIF_ISOLATE_BP_GUEST _BITUL(TIF_ISOLATE_BP_GUEST)
#define _TIF_31BIT _BITUL(TIF_31BIT)
#define _TIF_SINGLE_STEP _BITUL(TIF_SINGLE_STEP)