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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)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:55:17 +0000 (15:55 +0200)
commit6a012288d6906fee1dbc244050ade1dafe4a9c8d
tree17fddd5df13eec3bfa5731fa6619bad7c26418c3
parentb0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852
x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM

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
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c