x86/KVM/VMX: Add L1D flush algorithm
To mitigate the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability it's required to flush L1D on VMENTER to prevent rogue guests from snooping host memory. CPUs will have a new control MSR via a microcode update to flush L1D with a single MSR write, but in the absence of microcode a fallback to a software based flush algorithm is required. Add a software flush loop which is based on code from Intel. [ tglx: Split out from combo patch ] [ bpetkov: Polish the asm code ] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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