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Commit ff898623 authored by Jim Mattson's avatar Jim Mattson Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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x86/cpufeatures: Define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB_RET



AMD's initial implementation of IBPB did not clear the return address
predictor. Beginning with Zen4, AMD's IBPB *does* clear the return address
predictor. This behavior is enumerated by CPUID.80000008H:EBX.IBPB_RET[30].

Define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB_RET for use in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID,
when determining cross-vendor capabilities.

Suggested-by: default avatarVenkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
parent 8cf0b939
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