A reworked version of the opt-in L1D flush mechanism:
A stop gap for potential future speculation related hardware
vulnerabilities and a mechanism for truly security paranoid
applications.
It allows a task to request that the L1D cache is flushed when the kernel
switches to a different mm. This can be requested via prctl().
Changes vs. the previous versions:
- Get rid of the software flush fallback
- Make the handling consistent with other mitigations
- Kill the task when it ends up on a SMT enabled core which defeats the
purpose of L1D flushing obviously
Documentation: Add L1D flushing Documentation
Add documentation of l1d flushing, explain the need for the
feature and how it can be used.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108121056.21940-6-sblbir@amazon.com
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