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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2017-06-29 08:53:20 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-07-05 10:52:57 +0200
commit0790c9aad84901ca1bdc14746175549c8b5da215 (patch)
treedae266f69c917aec95ceb78a08461b440602bee9 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
parentcba4671af7550e008f7a7835f06df0763825bf3e (diff)
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x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index c8b3987..904485e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -168,6 +168,24 @@ static int __init x86_mpx_setup(char *s)
}
__setup("nompx", x86_mpx_setup);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+static int __init x86_pcid_setup(char *s)
+{
+ /* require an exact match without trailing characters */
+ if (strlen(s))
+ return 0;
+
+ /* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID))
+ return 1;
+
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PCID);
+ pr_info("nopcid: PCID feature disabled\n");
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("nopcid", x86_pcid_setup);
+#endif
+
static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s)
{
/* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */
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