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x86/speculation: Use synthetic bits for IBRS/IBPB/STIBP

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Intel and AMD have different CPUID bits hence for those use synthetic bits
which get set on the respective vendor's in init_speculation_control(). So
that debacles like what the commit message of

  c65732e4f7 ("x86/cpu: Restore CPUID_8000_0008_EBX reload")

talks about don't happen anymore.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504161815.GG9257@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Borislav Petkov 2018-05-02 18:15:14 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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