Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Subject | [PATCH v3 2/3] x86/mm: Add a noinvpcid option to turn off INVPCID | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:42:58 -0800 |
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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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