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authorJoerg Roedel <[email protected]>2018-07-18 11:41:15 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2018-07-20 01:11:48 +0200
commit5e8105950a8b3e03e805299b4d05020ee4eda31a (patch)
treee5ab66cb17129a284934830bf40eda4b7ebfcff8
parent7757d607c6b31867777de42e1fb0210b9c5d8b70 (diff)
x86/mm/pti: Add Warning when booting on a PCID capable CPU
Warn the user in case the performance can be significantly improved by switching to a 64-bit kernel. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Tested-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: David Laight <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <[email protected]> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]> Cc: "David H . Gutteridge" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pti.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index a536ecc91847..7b1c85759005 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -517,6 +517,28 @@ void __init pti_init(void)
pr_info("enabled\n");
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+ /*
+ * We check for X86_FEATURE_PCID here. But the init-code will
+ * clear the feature flag on 32 bit because the feature is not
+ * supported on 32 bit anyway. To print the warning we need to
+ * check with cpuid directly again.
+ */
+ if (cpuid_ecx(0x1) && BIT(17)) {
+ /* Use printk to work around pr_fmt() */
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "************************************************************\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** You are using 32-bit PTI on a 64-bit PCID-capable CPU. **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** Your performance will increase dramatically if you **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** switch to a 64-bit kernel! **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! **\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "************************************************************\n");
+ }
+#endif
+
pti_clone_user_shared();
/* Undo all global bits from the init pagetables in head_64.S: */