From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f197.google.com (mail-wr0-f197.google.com [209.85.128.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E996B025F for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wr0-f197.google.com with SMTP id j28so5916578wrd.17 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theia.8bytes.org (8bytes.org. [2a01:238:4383:600:38bc:a715:4b6d:a889]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y62si707056eda.304.2018.03.16.12.30.12 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:30:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Joerg Roedel Subject: [PATCH 34/35] x86/mm/pti: Add Warning when booting on a PCID capable CPU Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:29:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1521228593-3820-35-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> In-Reply-To: <1521228593-3820-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> References: <1521228593-3820-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , Andy Lutomirski , Dave Hansen , Josh Poimboeuf , Juergen Gross , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Kosina , Boris Ostrovsky , Brian Gerst , David Laight , Denys Vlasenko , Eduardo Valentin , Greg KH , Will Deacon , aliguori@amazon.com, daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at, hughd@google.com, keescook@google.com, Andrea Arcangeli , Waiman Long , Pavel Machek , jroedel@suse.de, joro@8bytes.org From: Joerg Roedel Warn the user in case the performance can be significantly improved by switching to a 64-bit kernel. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel --- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index 3ffd923..8f5aa0d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -385,6 +385,22 @@ void __init pti_init(void) pr_info("enabled\n"); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID)) { + /* 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(); pti_clone_entry_text(); pti_setup_espfix64(); -- 2.7.4