x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:21:29 +0000 (16:21 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 5 Sep 2018 07:20:07 +0000 (09:20 +0200)
commit2421738c164f79868d7bbe13a38129e7a3ffb6f3
treef35017bbc74f5369b9af4c3d2d518d6c4875bc77
parentf8d42d5c02084c936f0a7830e011b4395f30f06e
x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM

commit 6a012288d6906fee1dbc244050ade1dafe4a9c8d upstream.

Two users have reported [1] that they have an "extremely unlikely" system
with more than MAX_PA/2 memory and L1TF mitigation is not effective.

Make the warning more helpful by suggesting the proper mem=X kernel boot
parameter to make it effective and a link to the L1TF document to help
decide if the mitigation is worth the unusable RAM.

[1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105536

Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/966571f0-9d7f-43dc-92c6-a10eec7a1254@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c