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Subject[PATCH v3 2/3] x86/mm: Add a noinvpcid option to turn off INVPCID
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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 <luto@kernel.org>
---
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 742f69d18fc8..b34e55e00bae 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2508,6 +2508,8 @@ 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 c2b7522cbf35..48196980c1c7 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;
--
2.5.0
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