linux/arch/x86
Michal Hocko db616173d7 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>
2019-10-28 09:12:18 +01:00
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boot x86/boot/acpi: Move get_cmdline_acpi_rsdp() under #ifdef guard 2019-10-18 13:33:38 +02:00
configs x86/defconfigs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH 2019-06-21 19:22:08 +02:00
crypto crypto: x86/aes-ni - use AES library instead of single-use AES cipher 2019-09-09 23:48:41 +10:00
entry Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
events perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix base for single entry topa 2019-10-20 14:42:28 +02:00
hyperv x86/hyperv: Make vapic support x2apic mode 2019-10-15 10:57:09 +02:00
ia32 clone: fix CLONE_PIDFD support 2019-07-14 20:36:12 +02:00
include x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort 2019-10-28 08:36:58 +01:00
kernel x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto 2019-10-28 09:12:18 +01:00
kvm kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled 2019-10-28 08:36:59 +01:00
lib x86/asm: Fix MWAITX C-state hint value 2019-10-08 13:25:24 +02:00
math-emu x86/fpu/math-emu: Address fallthrough warnings 2019-08-12 20:35:05 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
net bpf: fix x64 JIT code generation for jmp to 1st insn 2019-08-01 13:12:09 -07:00
oprofile
pci dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
platform efi/x86: Do not clean dummy variable in kexec path 2019-10-07 15:24:36 +02:00
power Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-17 12:04:39 -07:00
purgatory Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-28 13:37:41 -07:00
ras RAS/CEC: Add CONFIG_RAS_CEC_DEBUG and move CEC debug features there 2019-06-08 17:39:24 +02:00
realmode x86/realmode: Remove trampoline_status 2019-07-22 11:30:18 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-08 17:34:44 -07:00
um um: Use real DMA barriers 2019-09-15 21:37:14 +02:00
video treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
xen xen: patch for 5.4-rc5 2019-10-26 06:32:12 -04:00
.gitignore
Kbuild treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Kbuild 2019-05-30 11:32:33 -07:00
Kconfig x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto 2019-10-28 09:12:18 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/cpu: Create Zhaoxin processors architecture support file 2019-06-22 11:45:57 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86, perf: Fix the dependency of the x86 insn decoder selftest 2019-09-02 20:05:58 +02:00
Makefile x86/build: Add -Wnoaddress-of-packed-member to REALMODE_CFLAGS, to silence GCC9 build warning 2019-08-28 17:31:31 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um