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    Subject[PATCH v6 09/10] x86/retpoline: Add boot time option to disable retpoline
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    From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

    Add a noretpoline option boot to disable retpoline and patch out the
    extra sequences. It cannot patch out the jumps to the thunk functions
    from code generated by the compiler, but those thunks turn into a single
    indirect branch now.

    Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
    Acked-By: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    ---
    Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
    arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 11 +++++++++++
    2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

    diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
    index 9059917..d443141 100644
    --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
    +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
    @@ -2596,6 +2596,9 @@

    nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.

    + noretpoline [X86] Disable the retpoline kernel indirect branch speculation
    + workarounds. System may allow data leaks with this option.
    +
    nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
    Equivalent to smt=1.

    diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
    index b720dac..35e123e 100644
    --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
    +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
    @@ -31,6 +31,17 @@
    #include <asm/apic.h>
    #endif

    +#ifdef RETPOLINE
    +static int __init noretpoline_setup(char *__unused)
    +{
    + pr_info("Retpoline runtime disabled\n");
    + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE);
    + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD);
    + return 1;
    +}
    +__setup("noretpoline", noretpoline_setup);
    +#endif
    +
    /*
    * Just in case our CPU detection goes bad, or you have a weird system,
    * allow a way to override the automatic disabling of MPX.
    --
    2.7.4
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