x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:53:20 +0000 (08:53 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:33:23 +0000 (20:33 +0100)
commitdcccd3c266e24ce80ecf592765315c54c222ac33
treeb5834811211a2d937713478c3e6a12b1428cb2c0
parent78043e5b6fb2921d836b31f23e89e52925191153
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>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c