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From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] intel_idle: Sync up the SPEC_CTRL MSR value to
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Both this and the play_dead case can't use update_spec_ctrl() because
> RCU isn't there anymore and all that is noinstr. Additionally, both
> sites rely on preemption being off already, where update_spec_ctrl()
> can't do that.

Oh, I might be wrong about the preemption thing; it doesn't make sense
to do wrmsr with preemption on, so it could be simpler.

> That said, I suppose one could write it like so:
> 
> static __always_inline __update_spec_ctrl(u64 val)
> {
> 	__this_cpu_write(x86_spec_ctrl_current, val);
> 	native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val);
> }
> 
> static void update_spec_ctrl(u64 val)
> {
> 	preempt_disable();
> 	__update_spec_ctrl(val);
> 	preempt_enable();
> }
> 
> And then you can use __update_spec_ctrl(). But that would need a wee
> audit of using native_wrmsrl() in all places, probably ok, IIRC Xen
> wasn't using our IBRS stuff anyway.