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x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:53:12 +0000 (09:53 -0800)
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 9 May 2025 20:22:05 +0000 (13:22 -0700)
commit2665281a07e19550944e8354a2024635a7b2714a
tree14068159db67f67490a6c672f96d0322f4c2576c
parentf4818881c47fd91fcb6d62373c57c7844e3de1c0
x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs

Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of
ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a
new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when
CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance
overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs.

When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host
isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c