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x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:10:00 +0000 (12:10 +0200)
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:52:36 +0000 (09:52 +0200)
commitf80e341a0e3d26f88bc297fb3697ee19c45a8e3b
tree10787dc3c437520f55ef34dd69469cbd131de49e
parentabd273f52766e1418abc37b3d8bdccf4871affca
x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1822760
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
(cherry picked from commit 6a012288d6906fee1dbc244050ade1dafe4a9c8d)
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c