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| author | Vineela Tummalapalli <vineela.tummalapalli@intel.com> | 2019-11-04 12:22:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-11-16 10:29:54 +0100 |
| commit | 12ceedb7604dfbe370a21df444819ece665c91db (patch) | |
| tree | 030c5b5bee233eb64c6f981e20b97792c1ad05d8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1b08d2ab698ddf78833717908e2a41336ab9c6ef (diff) | |
x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure
commit db4d30fbb71b47e4ecb11c4efa5d8aad4b03dfae upstream.
Some processors may incur a machine check error possibly resulting in an
unrecoverable CPU lockup when an instruction fetch encounters a TLB
multi-hit in the instruction TLB. This can occur when the page size is
changed along with either the physical address or cache type. The relevant
erratum can be found here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205195
There are other processors affected for which the erratum does not fully
disclose the impact.
This issue affects both bare-metal x86 page tables and EPT.
It can be mitigated by either eliminating the use of large pages or by
using careful TLB invalidations when changing the page size in the page
tables.
Just like Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF and MDS, a new bit has been allocated in
MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (PSCHANGE_MC_NO) and will be set on CPUs which
are mitigated against this issue.
Signed-off-by: Vineela Tummalapalli <vineela.tummalapalli@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9:
- No support for X86_VENDOR_HYGON, ATOM_AIRMONT_NP
- Adjust context, indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index c59f7c97eb47..b41046b5713b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit Date: January 2018 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities |