From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de, x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bp@alien8.de, peterz@infradead.org,
jmattson@google.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com,
arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:44:15 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1802200843570.24268@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1519037457-7643-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Retpoline means the kernel is safe because it has no indirect branches.
> But firmware isn't, so use IBRS for firmware calls if it's available.
>
> Block preemption while IBRS is set, although in practice the call sites
> already had to be doing that.
>
> Ignore hpwdt.c for now. It's taking spinlocks and calling into firmware
> code, from an NMI handler. I don't want to touch that with a bargepole.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-19 10:50 [PATCH v3 0/4] Speculation control improvements David Woodhouse
2018-02-19 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 7:44 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-02-20 10:29 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-19 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/speculation: Support "Enhanced IBRS" on future CPUs David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 8:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-20 8:53 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 10:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-20 10:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-20 11:22 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 11:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-26 19:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-20 11:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-19 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] Revert "x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()" David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 8:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-20 10:28 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2018-02-19 10:50 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] x86/retpoline: Support retpoline build with Clang David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 8:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-02-20 8:45 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-20 10:29 ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/retpoline: Support retpoline builds " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
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