Commit 129947ac authored by Pawan Gupta's avatar Pawan Gupta Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs



commit 2665281a upstream.

Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of
ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a
new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when
CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance
overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs.

When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host
isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 116a42f0
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