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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-02-27 12:48:14 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-03-06 21:52:13 +0100
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x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
CPUs which are affected by L1TF and MDS mitigate MDS with the L1D Flush on VMENTER when updated microcode is installed. If a CPU is not affected by L1TF or if the L1D Flush is not in use, then MDS mitigation needs to be invoked explicitly. For these cases, follow the host mitigation state and invoke the MDS mitigation before VMENTER. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
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