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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2019-10-23 12:28:57 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-11-12 19:19:01 +0100
commit8c99df217f8e36fde46cbf2af50b5b191857d9d4 (patch)
tree78df56e487b5135bc7c0e66fad210591f747d6f2 /Documentation
parentd2f9854c2c34552e2b8f5a01eb1ac66796de89b6 (diff)
x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
commit 7531a3596e3272d1f6841e0d601a614555dc6b65 upstream. Platforms which are not affected by X86_BUG_TAA may want the TSX feature enabled. Add "auto" option to the TSX cmdline parameter. When tsx=auto disable TSX when X86_BUG_TAA is present, otherwise enable TSX. More details on X86_BUG_TAA can be found here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.html [ bp: Extend the arg buffer to accommodate "auto\0". ] 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: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -4526,6 +4526,9 @@
update. This new MSR allows for the reliable
deactivation of the TSX functionality.)
+ auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present,
+ otherwise enable TSX on the system.
+
Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off.
See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst