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commit a47dd5f06714c844b33f3b5f517b6f3e81ce57b5 upstream. To mitigate the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability it's required to flush L1D on VMENTER to prevent rogue guests from snooping host memory. CPUs will have a new control MSR via a microcode update to flush L1D with a single MSR write, but in the absence of microcode a fallback to a software based flush algorithm is required. Add a software flush loop which is based on code from Intel. [ tglx: Split out from combo patch ] [ bpetkov: Polish the asm code ] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.