Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/feature: Detect the x86 feature Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier

[Tom Lendacky]

On 1/12/2018 6:39 AM, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:32 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:32:19PM -0800, Ashok Raj wrote:
>>> cpuid ax=0x7, return rdx bit 26 to indicate presence of both
>>> IA32_SPEC_CTRL(MSR 0x48) and IA32_PRED_CMD(MSR 0x49)
>>
>> So why do we need two X86_FEATURE flags then?
> 
> AMD has only the latter and enumerates them differently.

Correct.  Both 0x48 and 0x49 are tied to the same cpuid bit.  AMD has
a separate cpuid bit for 0x49 (IBPB) alone.

Thanks,
Tom

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