x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID

This adds a chicken bit to turn off INVPCID in case something goes
wrong.  It's an early_param() because we do TLB flushes before we
parse __setup() parameters.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f586317ed1bc2b87aee652267e515b90051af385.1454096309.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 551ecf09c8dd..e4c4d2a5a28d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2566,6 +2566,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	nointroute	[IA-64]
 
+	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
+
 	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
 
 	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 37830de8f60a..f4d0aa64d934 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ static int __init x86_mpx_setup(char *s)
 }
 __setup("nompx", x86_mpx_setup);
 
+static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s)
+{
+	/* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */
+	if (s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID))
+		return 0;
+
+	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID);
+	pr_info("noinvpcid: INVPCID feature disabled\n");
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("noinvpcid", x86_noinvpcid_setup);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 static int cachesize_override = -1;
 static int disable_x86_serial_nr = 1;