Commit f5df8d3
x86/bugs: Reset speculation control settings on init
[ Upstream commit 0125acd ]
Currently, x86_spec_ctrl_base is read at boot time and speculative bits
are set if Kconfig items are enabled. For example, IBRS is enabled if
CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY is configured, etc. These MSR bits are not cleared
if the mitigations are disabled.
This is a problem when kexec-ing a kernel that has the mitigation
disabled from a kernel that has the mitigation enabled. In this case,
the MSR bits are not cleared during the new kernel boot. As a result,
this might have some performance degradation that is hard to pinpoint.
This problem does not happen if the machine is (hard) rebooted because
the bit will be cleared by default.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Suggested-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128153148.1129350-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>1 parent aa70d1e commit f5df8d3
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