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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h13
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 0091f1008314..e7b0554be04f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32 ( 3*32+15) /* "" sysenter in IA32 userspace */
#define X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD ( 3*32+16) /* REP microcode works well */
#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_LBR_V2 ( 3*32+17) /* AMD Last Branch Record Extension Version 2 */
-/* FREE, was #define X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC ( 3*32+18) "" LFENCE synchronizes RDTSC */
+#define X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF ( 3*32+18) /* "" Clear CPU buffers using VERW */
#define X86_FEATURE_ACC_POWER ( 3*32+19) /* AMD Accumulated Power Mechanism */
#define X86_FEATURE_NOPL ( 3*32+20) /* The NOPL (0F 1F) instructions */
#define X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS ( 3*32+21) /* "" Always-present feature */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index 0396458c201f..a3db9647428b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -329,6 +329,17 @@
#endif
.endm
+/*
+ * Macro to execute VERW instruction that mitigate transient data sampling
+ * attacks such as MDS. On affected systems a microcode update overloaded VERW
+ * instruction to also clear the CPU buffers. VERW clobbers CFLAGS.ZF.
+ *
+ * Note: Only the memory operand variant of VERW clears the CPU buffers.
+ */
+.macro CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
+ ALTERNATIVE "", __stringify(verw _ASM_RIP(mds_verw_sel)), X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF
+.endm
+
#else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#define ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE \
@@ -545,6 +556,8 @@ DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(switch_mm_cond_l1d_flush);
DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(mmio_stale_data_clear);
+extern u16 mds_verw_sel;
+
#include <asm/segment.h>
/**