Pull x86 cpu-features updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change in this cycle was a large series from Sean
Christopherson to clean up the handling of VMX features. This both
fixes bugs/inconsistencies and makes the code more coherent and
future-proof.
There are also two cleanups and a minor TSX syslog messages
enhancement"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/cpu: Remove redundant cpu_detect_cache_sizes() call
x86/cpu: Print "VMX disabled" error message iff KVM is enabled
KVM: VMX: Allow KVM_INTEL when building for Centaur and/or Zhaoxin CPUs
perf/x86: Provide stubs of KVM helpers for non-Intel CPUs
KVM: VMX: Use VMX_FEATURE_* flags to define VMCS control bits
KVM: VMX: Check for full VMX support when verifying CPU compatibility
KVM: VMX: Use VMX feature flag to query BIOS enabling
KVM: VMX: Drop initialization of IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR
x86/cpufeatures: Add flag to track whether MSR IA32_FEAT_CTL is configured
x86/cpu: Set synthetic VMX cpufeatures during init_ia32_feat_ctl()
x86/cpu: Print VMX flags in /proc/cpuinfo using VMX_FEATURES_*
x86/cpu: Detect VMX features on Intel, Centaur and Zhaoxin CPUs
x86/vmx: Introduce VMX_FEATURES_*
x86/cpu: Clear VMX feature flag if VMX is not fully enabled
x86/zhaoxin: Use common IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization
x86/centaur: Use common IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization
x86/mce: WARN once if IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR is left unlocked
x86/intel: Initialize IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR at boot
tools/x86: Sync msr-index.h from kernel sources
selftests, kvm: Replace manual MSR defs with common msr-index.h
...
There is a general consensus that TSX usage is not largely spread while
the history shows there is a non trivial space for side channel attacks
possible. Therefore the tsx is disabled by default even on platforms
that might have a safe implementation of TSX according to the current
knowledge. This is a fair trade off to make.
There are, however, workloads that really do benefit from using TSX and
updating to a newer kernel with TSX disabled might introduce a
noticeable regressions. This would be especially a problem for Linux
distributions which will provide TAA mitigations.
Introduce config options X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF, X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON
and X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO to control the TSX feature. The config
setting can be overridden by the tsx cmdline options.
[ bp: Text cleanups from Josh. ]
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Add a kernel cmdline parameter "tsx" to control the Transactional
Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature. On CPUs that support TSX
control, use "tsx=on|off" to enable or disable TSX. Not specifying this
option is equivalent to "tsx=off". This is because on certain processors
TSX may be used as a part of a speculative side channel attack.
Carve out the TSX controlling functionality into a separate compilation
unit because TSX is a CPU feature while the TSX async abort control
machinery will go to cpu/bugs.c.
[ bp: - Massage, shorten and clear the arg buffer.
- Clarifications of the tsx= possible options - Josh.
- Expand on TSX_CTRL availability - Pawan. ]
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
