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x86/cpufeatures: Add detection of L1D cache flush support.
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:42:58 +0000 (16:42 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:11:02 +0000 (18:11 +0200)
commite486e3cbe16d76ef1aa6fde8a5f9c6d723c26009
tree532e1a00f96781c49be7ef637fa9dbfbe269ef46
parent51d8977e5a526d91874631f3473674c510b1be1f
x86/cpufeatures: Add detection of L1D cache flush support.

commit 11e34e64e4103955fc4568750914c75d65ea87ee upstream

336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf defines a new MSR
(IA32_FLUSH_CMD) which is detected by CPUID.7.EDX[28]=1 bit being set.

This new MSR "gives software a way to invalidate structures with finer
granularity than other architectual methods like WBINVD."

A copy of this document is available at
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511

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>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h