Commit-ID: d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e Author: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:42:58 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:36:10 +0100
x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID This adds a chicken bit to turn off INVPCID in case something goes wrong. It's an early_param() because we do TLB flushes before we parse __setup() parameters. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f586317ed1bc2b87aee652267e515b90051af385.1454096309.git.l...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 551ecf0..e4c4d2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2566,6 +2566,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nointroute [IA-64] + noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. + nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers. no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 37830de..f4d0aa6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ static int __init x86_mpx_setup(char *s) } __setup("nompx", x86_mpx_setup); +static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s) +{ + /* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */ + if (s) + return -EINVAL; + + /* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */ + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) + return 0; + + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID); + pr_info("noinvpcid: INVPCID feature disabled\n"); + return 0; +} +early_param("noinvpcid", x86_noinvpcid_setup); + #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 static int cachesize_override = -1; static int disable_x86_serial_nr = 1;
