x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate #DB for bus lock detection
A bus lock is acquired through either a split locked access to writeback (WB) memory or any locked access to non-WB memory. This is typically >1000 cycles slower than an atomic operation within a cache line. It also disrupts performance on other cores. Some CPUs have the ability to notify the kernel by a #DB trap after a user instruction acquires a bus lock and is executed. This allows the kernel to enforce user application throttling or mitigation. Both breakpoint and bus lock can trigger the #DB trap in the same instruction and the ordering of handling them is the kernel #DB handler's choice. The CPU feature flag to be shown in /proc/cpuinfo will be "bus_lock_detect". Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322135325.682257-2-fenghua.yu@intel.com
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