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| author | Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> | 2019-10-23 12:28:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2019-11-15 00:56:50 +0000 |
| commit | 366507333e0b8f83009fabea746ff0ad6d7c7641 (patch) | |
| tree | 787389b610f3fdddd75d56a58a26ecf995e632d2 /Documentation | |
| parent | 67323ec3ec3be6f5fcf2d6373701716b50c2a59d (diff) | |
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x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
commit 7531a3596e3272d1f6841e0d601a614555dc6b65 upstream.
Platforms which are not affected by X86_BUG_TAA may want the TSX feature
enabled. Add "auto" option to the TSX cmdline parameter. When tsx=auto
disable TSX when X86_BUG_TAA is present, otherwise enable TSX.
More details on X86_BUG_TAA can be found here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.html
[ bp: Extend the arg buffer to accommodate "auto\0". ]
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8ae1c6d85a4e..9f40e104aec4 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3602,6 +3602,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. update. This new MSR allows for the reliable deactivation of the TSX functionality.) + auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, + otherwise enable TSX on the system. + Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. See Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst |