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Sean Christopherson e3417ab75a KVM: SVM: Set/clear SRSO's BP_SPEC_REDUCE on 0 <=> 1 VM count transitions
Set the magic BP_SPEC_REDUCE bit to mitigate SRSO when running VMs if and
only if KVM has at least one active VM.  Leaving the bit set at all times
unfortunately degrades performance by a wee bit more than expected.

Use a dedicated spinlock and counter instead of hooking virtualization
enablement, as changing the behavior of kvm.enable_virt_at_load based on
SRSO_BP_SPEC_REDUCE is painful, and has its own drawbacks, e.g. could
result in performance issues for flows that are sensitive to VM creation
latency.

Defer setting BP_SPEC_REDUCE until VMRUN is imminent to avoid impacting
performance on CPUs that aren't running VMs, e.g. if a setup is using
housekeeping CPUs.  Setting BP_SPEC_REDUCE in task context, i.e. without
blasting IPIs to all CPUs, also helps avoid serializing 1<=>N transitions
without incurring a gross amount of complexity (see the Link for details
on how ugly coordinating via IPIs gets).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aBOnzNCngyS_pQIW@google.com
Fixes: 8442df2b49 ("x86/bugs: KVM: Add support for SRSO_MSR_FIX")
Reported-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@michaellarabel.com>
Closes: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-615-amd-regression
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505180300.973137-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.