Merge tag 'x86-splitlock-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 splitlock updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Support for 'split lock' detection: Atomic operations (lock prefixed instructions) which span two cache lines have to acquire the global bus lock. This is at least 1k cycles slower than an atomic operation within a cache line and disrupts performance on other cores. Aside of performance disruption this is a unpriviledged form of DoS. Some newer CPUs have the capability to raise an #AC trap when such an operation is attempted. The detection is by default enabled in warning mode which will warn once when a user space application is caught. A command line option allows to disable the detection or to select fatal mode which will terminate offending applications with SIGBUS" * tag 'x86-splitlock-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/split_lock: Avoid runtime reads of the TEST_CTRL MSR x86/split_lock: Rework the initialization flow of split lock detection x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel
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