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Commit c779bc1a authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/bugs: Optimize SPEC_CTRL MSR writes



When changing SPEC_CTRL for user control, the WRMSR can be delayed
until return-to-user when KERNEL_IBRS has been enabled.

This avoids an MSR write during context switch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
parent 2dbb887e
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