Patch "x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID" 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 the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID

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-the-nopcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-pcid.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 0790c9aad84901ca1bdc14746175549c8b5da215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:53:20 -0700
Subject: x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

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 |    2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c        |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2555,6 +2555,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
 			pagetables) support.
 
+	nopcid		[X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
+
 	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
 			echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
 
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -162,6 +162,24 @@ static int __init x86_mpx_setup(char *s)
 }
 __setup("nompx", x86_mpx_setup);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+static int __init x86_pcid_setup(char *s)
+{
+	/* require an exact match without trailing characters */
+	if (strlen(s))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID))
+		return 1;
+
+	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PCID);
+	pr_info("nopcid: PCID feature disabled\n");
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("nopcid", x86_pcid_setup);
+#endif
+
 static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s)
 {
 	/* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */


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

queue-4.4/x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-the-nopcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-pcid.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-enable-cr4.pcide-on-supported-systems.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-remove-the-up-asm-tlbflush.h-code-always-use-the-formerly-smp-code.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-reimplement-flush_tlb_page-using-flush_tlb_mm_range.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-make-flush_tlb_mm_range-more-predictable.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-disable-pcid-on-32-bit-kernels.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-64-fix-reboot-interaction-with-cr4.pcide.patch