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[185.218.67.109]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4924944fbbdsm408926155e9.12.2026.06.24.05.12.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <171efe97-fd87-45c1-9913-ff62eacab400@suse.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:12:28 +0300 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 02/12] x86/bhi: Make clear_bhb_loop() effective on newer CPUs To: Pawan Gupta , x86@kernel.org, Jon Kohler , "H. Peter Anvin" , Josh Poimboeuf , David Kaplan , Sean Christopherson , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Andrii Nakryiko , KP Singh , Jiri Olsa , "David S. 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On Alder Lake and newer parts this > sequence is not sufficient because it doesn't clear enough entries. This > was not an issue because these CPUs use the BHI_DIS_S hardware mitigation > in the kernel. > > Now with VMSCAPE (BHI variant) it is also required to isolate branch > history between guests and userspace. Since BHI_DIS_S only protects the > kernel, the newer CPUs also use IBPB. > > A cheaper alternative to the current IBPB mitigation is clear_bhb_loop(). > But it currently does not clear enough BHB entries to be effective on newer > CPUs with larger BHB. At boot, dynamically set the loop count of > clear_bhb_loop() such that it is effective on newer CPUs too. > > Introduce global loop counts, initializing them with appropriate value > based on the hardware feature X86_FEATURE_BHI_CTRL. > > Suggested-by: Dave Hansen > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) > Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov Although AI brings up a valid argument about whether guests should be pessimized and fallback to the longer sequence ?