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Commit a399477e authored by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/KVM/VMX: Add module argument for L1TF mitigation


Add a mitigation mode parameter "vmentry_l1d_flush" for CVE-2018-3620, aka
L1 terminal fault. The valid arguments are:

 - "always" 	L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
 - "cond"	Conditional L1D cache flush, explained below
 - "never"	Disable the L1D cache flush mitigation

"cond" is trying to avoid L1D cache flushes on VMENTER if the code executed
between VMEXIT and VMENTER is considered safe, i.e. is not bringing any
interesting information into L1D which might exploited.

[ tglx: Split out from a larger patch ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 26acfb66
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