Patch "x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:42:58 -0800
Subject: x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e upstream.

This adds a chicken bit to turn off INVPCID in case something goes
wrong.  It's an early_param() because we do TLB flushes before we
parse __setup() parameters.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f586317ed1bc2b87aee652267e515b90051af385.1454096309.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c        |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2519,6 +2519,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 
 	nointroute	[IA-64]
 
+	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
+
 	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
 
 	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ static int __init x86_mpx_setup(char *s)
 }
 __setup("nompx", x86_mpx_setup);
 
+static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s)
+{
+	/* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */
+	if (s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID))
+		return 0;
+
+	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID);
+	pr_info("noinvpcid: INVPCID feature disabled\n");
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("noinvpcid", x86_noinvpcid_setup);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 static int cachesize_override = -1;
 static int disable_x86_serial_nr = 1;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-uninline-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch
queue-4.4/x86-irq-do-not-substract-irq_tlb_count-from-irq_call_count.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-if-invpcid-is-available-use-it-to-flush-global-mappings.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-invpcid-helpers.patch
queue-4.4/sched-core-add-switch_mm_irqs_off-and-use-it-in-the-scheduler.patch
queue-4.4/arm-hide-finish_arch_post_lock_switch-from-modules.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-turn-off-irqs-in-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/mm-mmu_context-sched-core-fix-mmu_context.h-assumption.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-build-arch-x86-mm-tlb.c-even-on-smp.patch
queue-4.4/sched-core-idle_task_exit-shouldn-t-use-switch_mm_irqs_off.patch