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Paolo Bonzini 3fa045be4c x86/KVM/VMX: Add L1D MSR based flush
336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf defines a new MSR
(IA32_FLUSH_CMD aka 0x10B) which has similar write-only semantics to other
MSRs defined in the document.

The semantics of this MSR is to allow "finer granularity invalidation of
caching structures than existing mechanisms like WBINVD. It will writeback
and invalidate the L1 data cache, including all cachelines brought in by
preceding instructions, without invalidating all caches (eg. L2 or
LLC). Some processors may also invalidate the first level level instruction
cache on a L1D_FLUSH command. The L1 data and instruction caches may be
shared across the logical processors of a core."

Use it instead of the loop based L1 flush algorithm.

A copy of this document is available at
   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511

[ tglx: Avoid allocating pages when the MSR is available ]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-07-04 20:49:39 +02:00
arch x86/KVM/VMX: Add L1D MSR based flush 2018-07-04 20:49:39 +02:00
block for-linus-20180616 2018-06-17 05:37:55 +09:00
certs docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
crypto docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
Documentation x86/KVM/VMX: Add module argument for L1TF mitigation 2018-07-04 20:49:38 +02:00
drivers x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf 2018-06-20 19:10:00 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
include cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT 2018-06-21 14:20:58 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel x86/KVM: Warn user if KVM is loaded SMT and L1TF CPU bug being present 2018-07-04 20:49:38 +02:00
lib docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2 2018-06-20 19:10:01 +02:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-06-16 07:39:34 +09:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: check tools/*/Documentation 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
security docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
sound docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
tools Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc1 2018-06-17 08:04:49 +09:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.