x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:28:57 +0000 (12:28 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 09:29:45 +0000 (10:29 +0100)
commit562afad430aaf280d224c65589d8db4e29ca8ace
tree85c15ae8cbccd03204c29564607756319219cb6a
parent639453597dcce3337990c80272fae6b8e2c93005
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 4.9: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c