x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:28:57 +0000 (12:28 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:43:33 +0000 (01:43 +0000)
commit3300880f800da048ff393c01e7cc3bdf57af5e93
treec743d09e2ec327e30135447cf5177ec038aa8a87
parentb7dfb52ffd2eeda5fce53d7362bd63d10d660632
x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter

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>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/x86/taa
Gbp-Pq: Name 0007-x86-tsx-Add-auto-option-to-the-tsx-cmdline-parameter.patch
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c