[Xen-changelog] [xen stable-4.9] x86/spec_ctrl: Read MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES only once

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commit a29695c88818e0bb931714cae2a75edbb7b708e1
Author:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue May 29 09:43:28 2018 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue May 29 09:43:28 2018 +0200

    x86/spec_ctrl: Read MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES only once
    
    Make it available from the beginning of init_speculation_mitigations(), and
    pass it into appropriate functions.  Fix an RSBA typo while moving the
    affected comment.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    master commit: d6c65187252a6c1810fd24c4d46f812840de8d3c
    master date: 2018-05-16 12:19:10 +0100
---
 xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c | 34 ++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c b/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
index fa67a0ffbd..dc90743514 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
@@ -81,18 +81,15 @@ static int __init parse_bti(const char *s)
 }
 custom_param("bti", parse_bti);
 
-static void __init print_details(enum ind_thunk thunk)
+static void __init print_details(enum ind_thunk thunk, uint64_t caps)
 {
     unsigned int _7d0 = 0, e8b = 0, tmp;
-    uint64_t caps = 0;
 
     /* Collect diagnostics about available mitigations. */
     if ( boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level >= 7 )
         cpuid_count(7, 0, &tmp, &tmp, &tmp, &_7d0);
     if ( boot_cpu_data.extended_cpuid_level >= 0x80000008 )
         cpuid(0x80000008, &tmp, &e8b, &tmp, &tmp);
-    if ( _7d0 & cpufeat_mask(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPS) )
-        rdmsrl(MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, caps);
 
     printk(XENLOG_DEBUG "Speculative mitigation facilities:\n");
 
@@ -125,7 +122,7 @@ static void __init print_details(enum ind_thunk thunk)
 }
 
 /* Calculate whether Retpoline is known-safe on this CPU. */
-static bool __init retpoline_safe(void)
+static bool __init retpoline_safe(uint64_t caps)
 {
     unsigned int ucode_rev = this_cpu(ucode_cpu_info).cpu_sig.rev;
 
@@ -136,19 +133,12 @@ static bool __init retpoline_safe(void)
          boot_cpu_data.x86 != 6 )
         return false;
 
-    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPS) )
-    {
-        uint64_t caps;
-
-        rdmsrl(MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, caps);
-
-        /*
-         * RBSA may be set by a hypervisor to indicate that we may move to a
-         * processor which isn't retpoline-safe.
-         */
-        if ( caps & ARCH_CAPS_RSBA )
-            return false;
-    }
+    /*
+     * RSBA may be set by a hypervisor to indicate that we may move to a
+     * processor which isn't retpoline-safe.
+     */
+    if ( caps & ARCH_CAPS_RSBA )
+        return false;
 
     switch ( boot_cpu_data.x86_model )
     {
@@ -218,6 +208,10 @@ void __init init_speculation_mitigations(void)
 {
     enum ind_thunk thunk = THUNK_DEFAULT;
     bool ibrs = false;
+    uint64_t caps = 0;
+
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPS) )
+        rdmsrl(MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, caps);
 
     /*
      * Has the user specified any custom BTI mitigations?  If so, follow their
@@ -246,7 +240,7 @@ void __init init_speculation_mitigations(void)
              * On Intel hardware, we'd like to use retpoline in preference to
              * IBRS, but only if it is safe on this hardware.
              */
-            else if ( retpoline_safe() )
+            else if ( retpoline_safe(caps) )
                 thunk = THUNK_RETPOLINE;
             else if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB) )
                 ibrs = true;
@@ -331,7 +325,7 @@ void __init init_speculation_mitigations(void)
     /* (Re)init BSP state now that default_bti_ist_info has been calculated. */
     init_shadow_spec_ctrl_state();
 
-    print_details(thunk);
+    print_details(thunk, caps);
 }
 
 static void __init __maybe_unused build_assertions(void)
--
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