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intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:15:58 +0000 (23:15 +0200)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:33:59 +0000 (10:33 +0200)
commit8c15beec210adc1c180e9002fb38b1b417d1dc5e
treec5d11e696c13f6a27b6fe1703f293b6e6b6655d6
parent473ed2146bc6956fcd6d01a5f2b46f59a5972042
intel_idle: Disable IBRS during long idle

Having IBRS enabled while the SMT sibling is idle unnecessarily slows
down the running sibling. OTOH, disabling IBRS around idle takes two
MSR writes, which will increase the idle latency.

Therefore, only disable IBRS around deeper idle states. Shallow idle
states are bounded by the tick in duration, since NOHZ is not allowed
for them by virtue of their short target residency.

Only do this for mwait-driven idle, since that keeps interrupts disabled
across idle, which makes disabling IBRS vs IRQ-entry a non-issue.

Note: C6 is a random threshold, most importantly C1 probably shouldn't
disable IBRS, benchmarking needed.

Suggested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
drivers/idle/intel_idle.c