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From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>, <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
	"Nikunj A Dadhania" <nikunj@amd.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	"Michael Roth" <michael.roth@amd.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Naveen Rao <naveen.rao@amd.com>,
	David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/10] KVM: SEV: Add support for IBPB-on-Entry and BTB Isolation
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:56:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804235611.4053375-1-kim.phillips@amd.com> (raw)

IBPB-on-Entry and BTB Isolation are supplemental Spectre V2 mitigations
available to SNP guests.

Patch 1 fixes a misleading no-spectre-v2-mitigation error when the kernel isn't
compiled with retpolines, but a user can still select AutoIBRS, for example.

Patch 2 fixes a longstanding bug where users weren't able
to force Automatic IBRS on SNP enabled machines using spectre_v2=eibrs.

Patch 3 allows AutoIBRS to be used on a kernel compiled without retpolines.

Patch 4 fixes another longstanding bug where users couldn't
select legacy / toggling SPEC_CTRL[IBRS] on AMD systems.  Users of
the BTB Isolation feature may use IBRS to mitigate possible
performance degradation caused by BTB Isolation.

Patches 5, 6, 7 and 8 deal with code refactoring as a result of
Sean's review of the v2 IBPB-on-Entry series: an SNP-only feature
mask.

Patch 9 adds support for IBPB-on-Entry.

Patch 10 adds support for BTB Isolation.

Based on tip/master (currently fd0ece3c0826):
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

This v4 series now also available here:

https://github.com/AMDESE/linux/tree/btb-isol-latest

Advance qemu bits (to add feature on/off switches) available here:

https://github.com/AMDESE/qemu/tree/btb-isol-latest

Qemu bits will be posted upstream once kernel bits are merged.
They depend on Naveen Rao's "target/i386: SEV: Add support for
enabling VMSA SEV features":

https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cover.1761648149.git.naveen@kernel.org/

v4:
   - Ran Sashiko in a loop until all(?) its comments were addressed (Boris)

v3:
   - https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260402202558.195005-1-kim.phillips@amd.com/
   - Merged IBPB-on-Entry and BTB Isolation into single patchseries
   - Addressed comments from Sean Christopherson, Pawan Gupta, kernel test robot
   - Simplified unnecessarily complicated logic in spectre_v2=eibrs-with-SNP fix
   - Reworded, rebased features on top of new SNP_ONLY_MASK etc. changes

v2:
[IBPB-on-Entry]
     - https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260203222405.4065706-1-kim.phillips@amd.com/
     - Change first patch's title (Nikunj)
     - Add reviews-by (Nikunj, Tom)
     - Change second patch's description to more generally explain what the patch does (Boris)
     - Add new, third patch renaming SNP_FEATURES_PRESENT->SNP_FEATURES_IMPL
[BTB Isolation]
     - https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260311130611.2201214-1-kim.phillips@amd.com/
     - Patch 1/3:
       - Address Dave Hansen's comment to adhere to using the IBRS_ENHANCED
         Intel feature flag also for AutoIBRS.

v1:
[IBPB-on-Entry] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260126224205.1442196-1-kim.phillips@amd.com/
[BTB Isolation] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260224180157.725159-1-kim.phillips@amd.com/

Kim Phillips (10):
  x86/bugs: Only log missing retpoline when it's actually the missing
    mitigation
  cpu/bugs: Allow forcing Automatic IBRS with SNP active using
    spectre_v2=eibrs
  cpu/bugs: Fall back to AutoIBRS when retpoline unavailable on SNP CPUs
  cpu/bugs: Allow spectre_v2=ibrs on x86 vendors other than Intel
  KVM: SEV: Define SVM_SEV_FEAT_* flags using BIT_ULL()
  KVM: selftests: sev_init2: Use BIT_ULL for VMSA feature bit definition
  KVM: SEV: Disallow setting SNP-only features for non-SNP guests via a
    single mask
  KVM: SEV: Advertise SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE
  KVM: SEV: Add support for IBPB-on-Entry
  KVM: SEV: Add support for SNP BTB Isolation

 arch/x86/Kconfig                              |  7 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h            |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h                    | 17 +++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                    | 71 ++++++++++++++-----
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                  |  6 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c                        | 18 ++++-
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h      |  1 +
 .../selftests/kvm/x86/sev_init2_tests.c       | 20 ++++--
 8 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)


base-commit: fd0ece3c082632334ded22076932b302a048c7de
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-04 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-04 23:56 Kim Phillips [this message]
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] x86/bugs: Only log missing retpoline when it's actually the missing mitigation Kim Phillips
2026-08-05  0:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-05 14:51     ` Kim Phillips
2026-08-05 22:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-06 20:12         ` Kim Phillips
2026-08-07  5:44           ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] cpu/bugs: Allow forcing Automatic IBRS with SNP active using spectre_v2=eibrs Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] cpu/bugs: Fall back to AutoIBRS when retpoline unavailable on SNP CPUs Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] cpu/bugs: Allow spectre_v2=ibrs on x86 vendors other than Intel Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] KVM: SEV: Define SVM_SEV_FEAT_* flags using BIT_ULL() Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] KVM: selftests: sev_init2: Use BIT_ULL for VMSA feature bit definition Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] KVM: SEV: Disallow setting SNP-only features for non-SNP guests via a single mask Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] KVM: SEV: Advertise SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] KVM: SEV: Add support for IBPB-on-Entry Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] KVM: SEV: Add support for SNP BTB Isolation Kim Phillips

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