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%3Ba=su...
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@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org 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@kernel.org
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@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@suse.com Cc: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Toshi Kani toshi.kani@hp.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f586317ed1bc2b87aee652267e515b90051af385.1454096309... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- 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@kernel.org 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