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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-01-29 11:42:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-12-25 14:22:08 +0100 |
| commit | 791a0f3fecdabe18cc291e5f9b7ebbdc81895975 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d9a9a4848b0f36a27425781333d64851b1e3338 /Documentation | |
| parent | 04ec428b15f161ce8449756fb64b6f380c8d95fd (diff) | |
x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID
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.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7c77d7edb851..5d593ecadb90 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2519,6 +2519,8 @@ 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 |