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x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:47:09 +0000 (17:47 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:27:56 +0000 (18:27 +0200)
commit129947ac5441b5c3e1c350ac49492d83ce957d87
treeddc9220cebed871fd943248717c9afb99691b10b
parent116a42f01f7da1c7b032bf7ceded132c671f8e6f
x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs

commit 2665281a07e19550944e8354a2024635a7b2714a upstream.

Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of
ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a
new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when
CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance
overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs.

When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host
isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c