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# Commit cb8c12020307b39a89273d7699e89000451987ab
# Date 2018-05-16 12:19:10 +0100
# Author Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
# Committer Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
x86/spec_ctrl: Explicitly set Xen's default MSR_SPEC_CTRL value

With the impending ability to disable MSR_SPEC_CTRL handling on a
per-guest-type basis, the first exit-from-guest may not have the side effect
of loading Xen's choice of value.  Explicitly set Xen's default during the BSP
and AP boot paths.

For the BSP however, delay setting a non-zero MSR_SPEC_CTRL default until
after dom0 has been constructed when safe to do so.  Oracle report that this
speeds up boots of some hardware by 50s.

"when safe to do so" is based on whether we are virtualised.  A native boot
won't have any other code running in a position to mount an attack.

Reported-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
@@ -1746,6 +1746,13 @@ void __init noreturn __start_xen(unsigne
 
     setup_io_bitmap(dom0);
 
+    if ( bsp_delay_spec_ctrl )
+    {
+        get_cpu_info()->spec_ctrl_flags &= ~SCF_use_shadow;
+        barrier();
+        wrmsrl(MSR_SPEC_CTRL, default_xen_spec_ctrl);
+    }
+
     /* Jump to the 1:1 virtual mappings of cpu0_stack. */
     asm volatile ("mov %[stk], %%rsp; jmp %c[fn]" ::
                   [stk] "g" (__va(__pa(get_stack_bottom()))),
--- a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
@@ -351,6 +351,14 @@ void start_secondary(void *unused)
     else
         microcode_resume_cpu(cpu);
 
+    /*
+     * If MSR_SPEC_CTRL is available, apply Xen's default setting and discard
+     * any firmware settings.  Note: MSR_SPEC_CTRL may only become available
+     * after loading microcode.
+     */
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB) )
+        wrmsrl(MSR_SPEC_CTRL, default_xen_spec_ctrl);
+
     if ( xen_guest )
         hypervisor_ap_setup();
 
--- a/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ static int8_t __initdata opt_ibrs = -1;
 static bool __initdata opt_rsb_pv = true;
 static bool __initdata opt_rsb_hvm = true;
 bool __read_mostly opt_ibpb = true;
+
+bool __initdata bsp_delay_spec_ctrl;
 uint8_t __read_mostly default_xen_spec_ctrl;
 uint8_t __read_mostly default_spec_ctrl_flags;
 
@@ -334,6 +336,36 @@ void __init init_speculation_mitigations
         setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SC_MSR_IDLE);
 
     print_details(thunk, caps);
+
+    /*
+     * If MSR_SPEC_CTRL is available, apply Xen's default setting and discard
+     * any firmware settings.  For performance reasons, when safe to do so, we
+     * delay applying non-zero settings until after dom0 has been constructed.
+     *
+     * "when safe to do so" is based on whether we are virtualised.  A native
+     * boot won't have any other code running in a position to mount an
+     * attack.
+     */
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB) )
+    {
+        bsp_delay_spec_ctrl = !cpu_has_hypervisor && default_xen_spec_ctrl;
+
+        /*
+         * If delaying MSR_SPEC_CTRL setup, use the same mechanism as
+         * spec_ctrl_enter_idle(), by using a shadow value of zero.
+         */
+        if ( bsp_delay_spec_ctrl )
+        {
+            struct cpu_info *info = get_cpu_info();
+
+            info->shadow_spec_ctrl = 0;
+            barrier();
+            info->spec_ctrl_flags |= SCF_use_shadow;
+            barrier();
+        }
+
+        wrmsrl(MSR_SPEC_CTRL, bsp_delay_spec_ctrl ? 0 : default_xen_spec_ctrl);
+    }
 }
 
 static void __init __maybe_unused build_assertions(void)
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/spec_ctrl.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/spec_ctrl.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 void init_speculation_mitigations(void);
 
 extern bool opt_ibpb;
+
+extern bool bsp_delay_spec_ctrl;
 extern uint8_t default_xen_spec_ctrl;
 extern uint8_t default_spec_ctrl_flags;

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