x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:49:10 +0000 (19:49 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:14:48 +0000 (17:14 +0100)
commit8c34b07190ad0ce2e8b792b922b940bef1aef1e1
tree4c657b44ba8ce5eab3901b55f35b0039aceb2e0c
parent9023f52fd329a6c2fe3ecd7fe206299e89b949c6
x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off

commit 5b5e4d623ec8a34689df98e42d038a3b594d2ff9 upstream.

Swap storage is restricted to max_swapfile_size (~16TB on x86_64) whenever
the system is deemed affected by L1TF vulnerability. Even though the limit
is quite high for most deployments it seems to be too restrictive for
deployments which are willing to live with the mitigation disabled.

We have a customer to deploy 8x 6,4TB PCIe/NVMe SSD swap devices which is
clearly out of the limit.

Drop the swap restriction when l1tf=off is specified. It also doesn't make
much sense to warn about too much memory for the l1tf mitigation when it is
forcefully disabled by the administrator.

[ tglx: Folded the documentation delta change ]

Fixes: 377eeaa8e11f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181113184910.26697-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/mm/init.c