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authorBabu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>2023-05-04 15:53:08 -0500
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2023-05-08 16:35:30 +0200
commitbb039a230e6a7920d71d21fa9afee2653a678c48 (patch)
treebbf28ddf0f647a613223383748122862dc0badce /python/tests
parentd7c72735f618a7ee27ee109d8b1468193734606a (diff)
target/i386: Add a couple of feature bits in 8000_0008_EBX
Add the following feature bits. amd-psfd : Predictive Store Forwarding Disable: PSF is a hardware-based micro-architectural optimization designed to improve the performance of code execution by predicting address dependencies between loads and stores. While SSBD (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) disables both PSF and speculative store bypass, PSFD only disables PSF. PSFD may be desirable for the software which is concerned with the speculative behavior of PSF but desires a smaller performance impact than setting SSBD. Depends on the following kernel commit: b73a54321ad8 ("KVM: x86: Expose Predictive Store Forwarding Disable") stibp-always-on : Single Thread Indirect Branch Prediction mode has enhanced performance and may be left always on. The documentation for the features are available in the links below. a. Processor Programming Reference (PPR) for AMD Family 19h Model 01h, Revision B1 Processors b. SECURITY ANALYSIS OF AMD PREDICTIVE STORE FORWARDING Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Link: https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-analysis-predictive-store-forwarding.pdf Link: https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/55898_B1_pub_0.50.zip Message-Id: <20230504205313.225073-4-babu.moger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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