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Commit 58e106e7 authored by Balbir Singh's avatar Balbir Singh Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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sched: Add task_work callback for paranoid L1D flush



The upcoming paranoid L1D flush infrastructure allows to conditionally
(opt-in) flush L1D in switch_mm() as a defense against potential new side
channels or for paranoia reasons. As the flush makes only sense when a task
runs on a non-SMT enabled core, because SMT siblings share L1, the
switch_mm() logic will kill a task which is flagged for L1D flush when it
is running on a SMT thread.

Add a taskwork callback so switch_mm() can queue a SIG_KILL command which
is invoked when the task tries to return to user space.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108121056.21940-1-sblbir@amazon.com
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