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Subject: RE: [PATCH V2] x86/speculation: Support Enhanced IBRS on future CPUs
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> The feature strings are automatically generated from the define. The comment
> can be used to supress them by an empty "" string or to modify them by a
> "override" string at the beginning of the comment.

I overlooked "override" part. Sorry! about that.
It's clear now. Thanks for the explanation.

> >
> > > > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(x86_spec_ctrl_base & SPEC_CTRL_IBRS);
> 
> Please remove the warnon as well.
>

Sure! I removed it but forgot to mention it.

> > > > +	/* Ensure SPEC_CTRL_IBRS is set after VMEXIT from a guest */
> > > > +	x86_spec_ctrl_base |= SPEC_CTRL_IBRS;
> > >
> > > And what exactly writes the MSR?
> > >
> >
> > While booting, x86_spec_ctrl_setup_ap() does that and after VMEXIT
> > x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host().
> >
> > As x86_spec_ctrl_setup_ap() does wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL,
> > x86_spec_ctrl_base), I thought writing here would be redundant.
> 
> x86_spec_ctrl_setup_ap() is only called on the AP but not on the BP. So the boot
> processor will not have it set, unless something else writes the MSR. So you
> really want to have an explicit write there.

Yes, that makes sense.
But on the machine, I see IBRS bit set on all cores. As you said, someone else might 
be writing the MSR. I will try to find that out and will update the patch accordingly.

I initially suspected it to be __ssb_select_mitigation() as I have 
"spec_store_bypass_disable=on" in the kernel command line, but turns out it's not so.
I will update you more on this.

Regards,
Sai