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Control for Special Register Buffer Data Sampling mitigation.

Description

Control for Special Register Buffer Data Sampling mitigation.

New microcode update for Intel enables mitigation for SRBDS, which
slows down RDSEED and related instructions. The update also provides
a control to limit the mitigation to SGX enclaves, which should
restore the speed of random generator by the cost of potential
cross-core bufer sampling.

See https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/deep-dive-special-register-buffer-data-sampling

GIve the user control over it.

Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25221

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Provenance
kibAuthored on Jun 12 2020, 10:14 PM
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rG958d257ed5e9: x86: add bits definitions for SRBDS mitigation control.
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