From: Ashok Raj Add some helper macros to save/restore MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL. stop_indirect_branch_speculation_and_save() - saves the current state and enables IBRS. restore_indirect_branch_speculation() - restores the previously saved IBRS state. [peterz: renaming and folding of logic from the kvm patches] Cc: Asit Mallick Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Arjan Van De Ven Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Jun Nakajima Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Greg KH Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -232,6 +232,24 @@ static inline void restart_indirect_bran native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, SPEC_CTRL_DISABLE_IBRS); } +static inline u64 stop_indirect_branch_speculation_and_save(void) +{ + u64 val = 0; + + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRS)) { + val = native_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL); + native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, SPEC_CTRL_ENABLE_IBRS); + } + + return val; +} + +static inline void restore_indirect_branch_speculation(u64 val) +{ + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRS)) + native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val); +} + void specctrl_init_ibpb(void); static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)