powerpc/64s: Support disabling RFI flush with no_rfi_flush and nopti
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 9 Jan 2018 16:07:15 +0000 (03:07 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:58:11 +0000 (19:58 +0100)
commit9472d895cdc4a9abfb000bd071b1e036cebe3333
tree2b15443e072d1eaa5bf975e6e602faf4aa6e59ed
parentb434c155ab4411d732bcafae699bfc35e9847151
powerpc/64s: Support disabling RFI flush with no_rfi_flush and nopti

commit bc9c9304a45480797e13a8e1df96ffcf44fb62fe upstream.

Because there may be some performance overhead of the RFI flush, add
kernel command line options to disable it.

We add a sensibly named 'no_rfi_flush' option, but we also hijack the
x86 option 'nopti'. The RFI flush is not the same as KPTI, but if we
see 'nopti' we can guess that the user is trying to avoid any overhead
of Meltdown mitigations, and it means we don't have to educate every
one about a different command line option.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c