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Title:
  Add split lock detection for EMR

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Jammy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  SRU Justification
  [Impact]
  Intel has introduced support for their new Emerald Rapids CPU. 
  It was backported to Jammy in #lp2015372
   
  The remaining feature needed to fully support EMR is the split lock detection 
mechanism.
  So far, bit 5 in IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES says whether split lock detection is 
supported or not, but this is not architectural, meaning that this should be 
trusted only if it’s confirmed that a specific CPU model implements it. This 
lead to a mapping between a CPU model and whether it supports split lock 
detection by default (no need to check IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES) or they may 
support the split lock detection → IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES bit 5 has to be 
checked.

  With more and more CPU models, this becomes hard to maintain. Moreover, the 
December 2022 edition of the Intel Instruction Set Extensions manual defined 
that the split lock disable bit in the IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR is (and 
retrospectively always has been) architectural. Documentation also mentions 
  “All processors that enumerate support for MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPS and set 
MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPS_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT support split lock detection.”

  Thus, commit d7ce15e1d4162ab5e56dead10d4ae69a6b5c8ee8:
  “ x86/split_lock: Enumerate architectural split lock disable bit” from 
linux-next removes the need of adding a new CPU model in that mapping.

  This is needed to support split lock detection for the new EMR CPU and future 
models that don’t suffer architectural changes.
   
  [Testing]
   Kernel was built on cbd and boot tested on a VM.
  Intel was asked to install and test the new kernel from this ppa 
https://launchpad.net/~roxanan/+archive/ubuntu/lp2015855

  [Regression potential]
   Very low, it is a small refactor and in essence, it does the exact same 
thing for existing cpu models:
  1. For Icelake which does not have IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES it always assumes 
the mechanism is supported.
  2. For the rest, it automatically checks bit 5 of IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES 
without the extra step of checking the map if the CPU supports this (which was 
always true)

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