Re: [PATCH] x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:03:50AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I pondered that, but I didn't like it. I didn't want to always *force*
> those features on, for all CPUs, just because they happened to be
> discovered at boot time on the first CPU (which *did* have its
> microcode updated by the crappy BIOS, while the others didn't).
> 
> I strongly suspect that's purely an academic concern, and we mostly
> check boot_cpu_has() and never even *notice* if secondary CPUs don't
> match. I just didn't want to make that *worse*. It tickled my OCD.

Well, you need to do it because those bits are AMD-specific and they are
not set in the Intel CPUID leaf and identify_cpu() towards the end takes
care of "ironing" all those bits out which are not part of the common
feature set and which get_cpu_cap() has *not* read out from CPUID.

It is one of those I-told-you-so moments when I suggested to make the
visible feature bits the artificial ones and have the *actual* hardware
ones set those.

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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