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| author |   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2019-10-23 12:35:50 +0200 |
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| committer |   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-10-28 09:12:18 +0100 |
| commit | db616173d787395787ecc93eef075fa975227b10 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b55a074699594c3d20d2c1959d89a111717b908 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-db616173d787395787ecc93eef075fa975227b10.tar.xz linux-dev-db616173d787395787ecc93eef075fa975227b10.zip | |
x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto
There is a general consensus that TSX usage is not largely spread while
the history shows there is a non trivial space for side channel attacks
possible. Therefore the tsx is disabled by default even on platforms
that might have a safe implementation of TSX according to the current
knowledge. This is a fair trade off to make.
There are, however, workloads that really do benefit from using TSX and
updating to a newer kernel with TSX disabled might introduce a
noticeable regressions. This would be especially a problem for Linux
distributions which will provide TAA mitigations.
Introduce config options X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF, X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON
and X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO to control the TSX feature. The config
setting can be overridden by the tsx cmdline options.
[ bp: Text cleanups from Josh. ]
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c index dda328ec2ba1..3e20d322bc98 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c @@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ static bool __init tsx_ctrl_is_supported(void) return !!(ia32_cap & ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR); } +static enum tsx_ctrl_states x86_get_tsx_auto_mode(void) +{ + if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA)) + return TSX_CTRL_DISABLE; + + return TSX_CTRL_ENABLE; +} + void __init tsx_init(void) { char arg[5] = {}; @@ -88,17 +96,19 @@ void __init tsx_init(void) } else if (!strcmp(arg, "off")) { tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_DISABLE; } else if (!strcmp(arg, "auto")) { - if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA)) - tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_DISABLE; - else - tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_ENABLE; + tsx_ctrl_state = x86_get_tsx_auto_mode(); } else { tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_DISABLE; pr_err("tsx: invalid option, defaulting to off\n"); } } else { - /* tsx= not provided, defaulting to off */ - tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_DISABLE; + /* tsx= not provided */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO)) + tsx_ctrl_state = x86_get_tsx_auto_mode(); + else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF)) + tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_DISABLE; + else + tsx_ctrl_state = TSX_CTRL_ENABLE; } if (tsx_ctrl_state == TSX_CTRL_DISABLE) { |