This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:42:58 -0800
Subject: x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e upstream.
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f586317ed1bc2b87aee652267e515b90051af385.1454096309.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2519,6 +2519,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
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
--- 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;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-uninline-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch
queue-4.4/x86-irq-do-not-substract-irq_tlb_count-from-irq_call_count.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-if-invpcid-is-available-use-it-to-flush-global-mappings.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-invpcid-helpers.patch
queue-4.4/sched-core-add-switch_mm_irqs_off-and-use-it-in-the-scheduler.patch
queue-4.4/arm-hide-finish_arch_post_lock_switch-from-modules.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-turn-off-irqs-in-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/mm-mmu_context-sched-core-fix-mmu_context.h-assumption.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-build-arch-x86-mm-tlb.c-even-on-smp.patch
queue-4.4/sched-core-idle_task_exit-shouldn-t-use-switch_mm_irqs_off.patch