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Subject[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 3/6] x86/bugs: Optimize SPEC_CTRL MSR writes
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit c779bc1a9002fa474175b80e72b85c9bf628abb0 ]

When changing SPEC_CTRL for user control, the WRMSR can be delayed
until return-to-user when KERNEL_IBRS has been enabled.

This avoids an MSR write during context switch.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index 6bc5a324dd65..884f3472ad4f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)

/* The Intel SPEC CTRL MSR base value cache */
extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_base;
-extern void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val);
+extern void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bool force);

/*
* With retpoline, we must use IBRS to restrict branch prediction
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index cf67e31d7dfd..35e6e3b37b1d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -60,13 +60,19 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(spec_ctrl_mutex);
* Keep track of the SPEC_CTRL MSR value for the current task, which may differ
* from x86_spec_ctrl_base due to STIBP/SSB in __speculation_ctrl_update().
*/
-void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val)
+void write_spec_ctrl_current(u64 val, bool force)
{
if (this_cpu_read(x86_spec_ctrl_current) == val)
return;

this_cpu_write(x86_spec_ctrl_current, val);
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val);
+
+ /*
+ * When KERNEL_IBRS this MSR is written on return-to-user, unless
+ * forced the update can be delayed until that time.
+ */
+ if (force || !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS))
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val);
}

/*
@@ -1120,7 +1126,7 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mitigation(void)
if (spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(mode)) {
/* Force it so VMEXIT will restore correctly */
x86_spec_ctrl_base |= SPEC_CTRL_IBRS;
- write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base);
+ write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true);
}

switch (mode) {
@@ -1175,7 +1181,7 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mitigation(void)

static void update_stibp_msr(void * __unused)
{
- write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base);
+ write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true);
}

/* Update x86_spec_ctrl_base in case SMT state changed. */
@@ -1418,7 +1424,7 @@ static enum ssb_mitigation __init __ssb_select_mitigation(void)
x86_amd_ssb_disable();
} else {
x86_spec_ctrl_base |= SPEC_CTRL_SSBD;
- write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base);
+ write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true);
}
}

@@ -1623,7 +1629,7 @@ int arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_get(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long which)
void x86_spec_ctrl_setup_ap(void)
{
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL))
- write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base);
+ write_spec_ctrl_current(x86_spec_ctrl_base, true);

if (ssb_mode == SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_DISABLE)
x86_amd_ssb_disable();
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 6e000c6ec6be..baa9254149e7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static __always_inline void __speculation_ctrl_update(unsigned long tifp,
}

if (updmsr)
- write_spec_ctrl_current(msr);
+ write_spec_ctrl_current(msr, false);
}

static unsigned long speculation_ctrl_update_tif(struct task_struct *tsk)
--
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