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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2017-06-29 08:53:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-01-02 20:33:23 +0100 |
| commit | dcccd3c266e24ce80ecf592765315c54c222ac33 (patch) | |
| tree | b5834811211a2d937713478c3e6a12b1428cb2c0 /Documentation | |
| parent | 78043e5b6fb2921d836b31f23e89e52925191153 (diff) | |
x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID
commit 0790c9aad84901ca1bdc14746175549c8b5da215 upstream.
The parameter is only present on x86_64 systems to save a few bytes,
as PCID is always disabled on x86_32.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8bbb2e65bcd249a5f18bfb8128b4689f08ac2b60.1498751203.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
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 5d593ecadb90..b4a83a490212 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2555,6 +2555,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of pagetables) support. + nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. + norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space |