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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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- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 26 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c 2 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h 16 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c 5 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c 125 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c
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