4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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;