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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 18 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7336a6006ba6..686fd3059716 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2261,6 +2261,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of pagetables) support. + nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature. + norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 8211cdfc03dc..a7b072e7e098 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -163,6 +163,24 @@ static int __init x86_xsaveopt_setup(char *s) } __setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 +static int __init x86_pcid_setup(char *s) +{ + /* require an exact match without trailing characters */ + if (strlen(s)) + return 0; + + /* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */ + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID)) + return 1; + + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PCID); + pr_info("nopcid: PCID feature disabled\n"); + return 1; +} +__setup("nopcid", x86_pcid_setup); +#endif + static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s) { /* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */ |