Patch "x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Feb  7 19:38:23 CST 2018
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:14:11 +0000
Subject: x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

(cherry picked from commit 5d10cbc91d9eb5537998b65608441b592eec65e7)

AMD exposes the PRED_CMD/SPEC_CTRL MSRs slightly differently to Intel.
See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b3e25cc-286d-8bd0-aeaf-9ac4aae39de8@amd.com

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516896855-7642-4-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@
 /* AMD-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x80000008 (ebx), word 13 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_CLZERO	(13*32+0) /* CLZERO instruction */
 #define X86_FEATURE_IRPERF	(13*32+1) /* Instructions Retired Count */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_PRED_CMD (13*32+12) /* Prediction Command MSR (AMD) */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_SPEC_CTRL (13*32+14) /* Speculation Control MSR only (AMD) */
+#define X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP	(13*32+15) /* Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (AMD) */
 
 /* Thermal and Power Management Leaf, CPUID level 0x00000006 (eax), word 14 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_DTHERM	(14*32+ 0) /* Digital Thermal Sensor */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwmw@amazon.co.uk are

queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-introduce-alloc_loaded_vmcs.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-eliminate-vmcs02-pool.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-svm-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeature-blacklist-spec_ctrl-pred_cmd-on-early-spectre-v2-microcodes.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.patch
queue-4.9/x86-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-msr-bitmaps-per-vcpu.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-mark-vmcs12-pages-dirty-on-l2-exit.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-emulate-msr_ia32_arch_capabilities.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch