Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 TSX Async Abort and iTLB Multihit mitigations from Thomas Gleixner: "The performance deterioration departement is not proud at all of presenting the seventh installment of speculation mitigations and hardware misfeature workarounds: 1) TSX Async Abort (TAA) - 'The Annoying Affair' TAA is a hardware vulnerability that allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers by using asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX transactional region. The mitigation depends on a microcode update providing a new MSR which allows to disable TSX in the CPU. CPUs which have no microcode update can be mitigated by disabling TSX in the BIOS if the BIOS provides a tunable. Newer CPUs will have a bit set which indicates that the CPU is not vulnerable, but the MSR to disable TSX will be available nevertheless...
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