x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:35:50 +0000 (12:35 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:43:33 +0000 (01:43 +0000)
commitdb00ba74aa0408c99b3fa302e149d647e5eae590
tree938f69cf2b87ade11a141b60d847bf58d93df1f8
parentf1278feafb4e883fae350b450cb811c54981450c
x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto

There is a general consensus that TSX usage is not largely spread while
the history shows there is a non trivial space for side channel attacks
possible. Therefore the tsx is disabled by default even on platforms
that might have a safe implementation of TSX according to the current
knowledge. This is a fair trade off to make.

There are, however, workloads that really do benefit from using TSX and
updating to a newer kernel with TSX disabled might introduce a
noticeable regressions. This would be especially a problem for Linux
distributions which will provide TAA mitigations.

Introduce config options X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_OFF, X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_ON
and X86_INTEL_TSX_MODE_AUTO to control the TSX feature. The config
setting can be overridden by the tsx cmdline options.

 [ bp: Text cleanups from Josh. ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/x86/taa
Gbp-Pq: Name 0009-x86-tsx-Add-config-options-to-set-tsx-on-off-auto.patch
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c