A reworked version of the opt-in L1D flush mechanism:
A stop gap for potential future speculation related hardware
vulnerabilities and a mechanism for truly security paranoid
applications.
It allows a task to request that the L1D cache is flushed when the kernel
switches to a different mm. This can be requested via prctl().
Changes vs. the previous versions:
- Get rid of the software flush fallback
- Make the handling consistent with other mitigations
- Kill the task when it ends up on a SMT enabled core which defeats the
purpose of L1D flushing obviously