Commit-ID: 5e8105950a8b3e03e805299b4d05020ee4eda31a Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/5e8105950a8b3e03e805299b4d05020ee4eda31a Author: Joerg Roedel <jroe...@suse.de> AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:41:15 +0200 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> CommitDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:11:48 +0200
x86/mm/pti: Add Warning when booting on a PCID capable CPU Warn the user in case the performance can be significantly improved by switching to a 64-bit kernel. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroe...@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> Cc: linux...@kvack.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edu...@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: aligu...@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gr...@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hu...@google.com Cc: keesc...@google.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <ll...@redhat.com> Cc: "David H . Gutteridge" <dhgutteri...@sympatico.ca> Cc: j...@8bytes.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531906876-13451-39-git-send-email-j...@8bytes.org --- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index a536ecc91847..7b1c85759005 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -517,6 +517,28 @@ void __init pti_init(void) pr_info("enabled\n"); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 + /* + * We check for X86_FEATURE_PCID here. But the init-code will + * clear the feature flag on 32 bit because the feature is not + * supported on 32 bit anyway. To print the warning we need to + * check with cpuid directly again. + */ + if (cpuid_ecx(0x1) && BIT(17)) { + /* Use printk to work around pr_fmt() */ + printk(KERN_WARNING "\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "************************************************************\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** You are using 32-bit PTI on a 64-bit PCID-capable CPU. **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** Your performance will increase dramatically if you **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** switch to a 64-bit kernel! **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! **\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "************************************************************\n"); + } +#endif + pti_clone_user_shared(); /* Undo all global bits from the init pagetables in head_64.S: */
