x86/entry: Organise the use of MSR_SPEC_CTRL at each entry/exit point
We need to be able to either set or clear IBRS in Xen context, as well as
restore appropriate guest values in guest context. See the documentation in
asm-x86/spec_ctrl_asm.h for details.
With the contemporary microcode, writes to %cr3 are slower when SPEC_CTRL.IBRS
is set. Therefore, the positioning of SPEC_CTRL_{ENTRY/EXIT}* is important.
Ideally, the IBRS_SET/IBRS_CLEAR hunks might be positioned either side of the
%cr3 change, but that is rather more complicated to arrange, and could still
result in a guest controlled value in SPEC_CTRL during the %cr3 change,
negating the saving if the guest chose to have IBRS set.
Therefore, we optimise for the pre-Skylake case (being far more common in the
field than Skylake and later, at the moment), where we have a Xen-preferred
value of IBRS clear when switching %cr3.
There is a semi-unrelated bugfix, where various asm_defn.h macros have a
hidden dependency on PAGE_SIZE, which results in an assembler error if used in
a .macro definition.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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