From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com>,
Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 06/28] x86/speculation: Rename SSBD update functions
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:24:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181126152429.GE4843@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181125185004.058866968@linutronix.de>
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 07:33:34PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> During context switch, the SSBD bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is updated according
> to changes of the TIF_SSBD flag in the current and next running task.
>
> Currently, only the bit controlling speculative store bypass disable in
> SPEC_CTRL MSR is updated and the related update functions all have
> "speculative_store" or "ssb" in their names.
>
> For enhanced mitigation control other bits in SPEC_CTRL MSR need to be
> updated as well, which makes the SSB names inadequate.
>
> Rename the "speculative_store*" functions to a more generic name.
>
And add:
"No functional changes."
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-25 18:33 [patch V2 00/28] x86/speculation: Remedy the STIBP/IBPB overhead Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 01/28] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:20 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:27 ` [patch V2 01/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 02/28] x86/speculation: Clean up spectre_v2_parse_cmdline() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:20 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:28 ` [patch V2 02/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 03/28] x86/speculation: Remove unnecessary ret variable in cpu_show_common() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:21 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:28 ` [patch V2 03/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 04/28] x86/speculation: Reorganize cpu_show_common() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 15:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:22 ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Move STIPB/IBPB string conditionals out of cpu_show_common() tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:29 ` [patch V2 04/28] x86/speculation: Reorganize cpu_show_common() Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 05/28] x86/speculation: Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is in use Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:22 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:35 ` [patch V2 05/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 06/28] x86/speculation: Rename SSBD update functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 15:24 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-11-28 14:23 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 14:37 ` [patch V2 06/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 07/28] x86/speculation: Reorganize speculation control MSRs update Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 15:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:23 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:41 ` [patch V2 07/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 08/28] sched/smt: Make sched_smt_present track topology Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:24 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
2018-11-29 14:42 ` [patch V2 08/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-29 14:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-29 15:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 09/28] x86/Kconfig: Select SCHED_SMT if SMP enabled Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:24 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 14:44 ` [patch V2 09/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 10/28] sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:25 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 14:44 ` [patch V2 10/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 11/28] x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:26 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 12/28] x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:26 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 13/28] x86/speculation: Reorder the spec_v2 code Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 22:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:27 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 14/28] x86/speculation: Mark string arrays const correctly Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:27 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 15/28] x86/speculataion: Mark command line parser data __initdata Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:28 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 16/28] x86/speculation: Unify conditional spectre v2 print functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:29 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 17/28] x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:29 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 18/28] x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 17:25 ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-27 19:51 ` Tim Chen
2018-11-28 9:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 20:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 20:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 21:52 ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-28 14:30 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 19/28] x86/process: Consolidate and simplify switch_to_xtra() code Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 18:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:30 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 20/28] x86/speculation: Avoid __switch_to_xtra() calls Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:31 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 21/28] x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 19:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 20:53 ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-25 22:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 23:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-26 7:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 13:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-11-26 3:07 ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-26 6:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:31 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 22/28] ptrace: Remove unused ptrace_may_access_sched() and MODE_IBRS Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:32 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 23/28] x86/speculation: Split out TIF update Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:33 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 24/28] x86/speculation: Prepare arch_smt_update() for PRCTL mode Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 20:18 ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-27 20:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 21:20 ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-28 14:34 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 25/28] x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:34 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 26/28] x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 7:56 ` Dominik Brodowski
2018-11-28 14:35 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 27/28] x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 19:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-25 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-25 20:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-11-25 22:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 13:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-11-26 20:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-11-26 20:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 21:52 ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-27 0:37 ` Tim Chen
2018-12-04 1:38 ` Tim Chen
2018-12-04 8:39 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-12-04 9:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2018-12-04 9:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2018-12-04 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-04 18:58 ` Tim Chen
2018-11-28 14:35 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-12-04 18:45 ` [patch V2 27/28] " Dave Hansen
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 28/28] x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:36 ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 13:37 ` [patch V2 00/28] x86/speculation: Remedy the STIBP/IBPB overhead Ingo Molnar
2018-11-28 14:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 19:02 ` Tim Chen
2018-12-10 23:43 ` Pavel Machek
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