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| author |   Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> | 2019-10-23 11:01:53 +0200 |
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| committer |   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-10-28 08:36:58 +0100 |
| commit | 95c5824f75f3ba4c9e8e5a4b1a623c95390ac266 (patch) | |
| tree | 435c7815c83cb35214bb13686e47422b66b25ef7 /tools | |
| parent | x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (diff) | |
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x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default
Add a kernel cmdline parameter "tsx" to control the Transactional
Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature. On CPUs that support TSX
control, use "tsx=on|off" to enable or disable TSX. Not specifying this
option is equivalent to "tsx=off". This is because on certain processors
TSX may be used as a part of a speculative side channel attack.
Carve out the TSX controlling functionality into a separate compilation
unit because TSX is a CPU feature while the TSX async abort control
machinery will go to cpu/bugs.c.
[ bp: - Massage, shorten and clear the arg buffer.
- Clarifications of the tsx= possible options - Josh.
- Expand on TSX_CTRL availability - Pawan. ]
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>
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