arch: x86: Allow disabling speculative store bypass
In order to mitigate against Spectre V4, add an option that will, at boot time, verify if the CPU supports the SPEC_CTRL MSR; if so, it'll attempt to disable the feature. More information can be found in chapter 4 (Speculative Store Bypass Mitigation) of the "Speculative Execution Side Channel Mitigations" document, version 2, published by Intel: https://goo.gl/nocTcj Signed-off-by:Leandro Pereira <leandro.pereira@intel.com>
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