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Some CPU revisions support a mode where the count cache needs to be flushed by software on context switch. Additionally some revisions may have a hardware accelerated flush, in which case the software flush sequence can be shortened. If we detect the appropriate flag from firmware we patch a branch into _switch() which takes us to a count cache flush sequence. That sequence in turn may be patched to return early if we detect that the CPU supports accelerating the flush sequence in hardware. Add debugfs support for reporting the state of the flush, as well as runtime disabling it. And modify the spectre_v2 sysfs file to report the state of the software flush. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.