[MODERATED] [PATCH v5 01/11] TAAv5 1
Pawan Gupta <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Oct 2019 23:26:30 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.lore.historical-speck |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <731e305d73d05e0b0458340d5832331f0873a287.157025 [email protected]> |
Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) may be used on certain
processors as part of a speculative side channel attack. A microcode
update for existing processors that are vulnerable to this attack will
add a new MSR, IA32_TSX_CTRL to allow the system administrator the
option to disable TSX as one of the possible mitigations. [Note that
future processors that are not vulnerable will also support the
IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR]. Add defines for the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR and its
bits.
TSX has two sub-features:
1. Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM) is an explicitly-used feature
where new instructions begin and end TSX transactions.
2. Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) is implicitly used when certain kinds of
"old" style locks are used by software.
Bit 7 of the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES indicates the presence of the
IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR.
There are two control bits in IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR:
Bit 0: When set it disables the Restricted Transactional Memory (RTM)
sub-feature of TSX (will force all transactions to abort on the
XBEGIN instruction).
Bit 1: When set it disables the enumeration of the RTM feature (i.e.
it will make CPUID(EAX=7).EBX{bit11} read as 0).
The other TSX sub-feature, Hardware Lock Elision (HLE), is unconditionally
disabled but still enumerated as present by CPUID(EAX=7).EBX{bit4}.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
index 271d837d69a8..45b6705d9f71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
* Microarchitectural Data
* Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities.
*/
+#define ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR BIT(7) /* MSR for TSX control is available. */
#define MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD 0x0000010b
#define L1D_FLUSH BIT(0) /*
@@ -103,6 +104,10 @@
#define MSR_IA32_BBL_CR_CTL 0x00000119
#define MSR_IA32_BBL_CR_CTL3 0x0000011e
+#define MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL 0x00000122
+#define TSX_CTRL_RTM_DISABLE BIT(0) /* Disable RTM feature */
+#define TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR BIT(1) /* Disable TSX enumeration */
+
#define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS 0x00000174
#define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP 0x00000175
#define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP 0x00000176
--
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