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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2017-06-29 08:53:20 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-02 20:35:09 +0100
commite6a29320de005792c06f2deec2c77b19c42d1e6a (patch)
treeef726583fa69fef420eb8e8621c5fe6a83ca565e /Documentation
parent1e7f3d8875ee92983bd754982af7f4f044dd057d (diff)
x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID
commit 0790c9aad84901ca1bdc14746175549c8b5da215 upstream. The parameter is only present on x86_64 systems to save a few bytes, as PCID is always disabled on x86_32. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8bbb2e65bcd249a5f18bfb8128b4689f08ac2b60.1498751203.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 86a6746f6833..152ec4e87b57 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2795,6 +2795,8 @@ 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