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authorLiu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com>2022-08-26 19:40:50 +0800
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2022-09-09 19:02:22 +0100
commit877ace9eab7de032f954533afd5d1ecd0cf62eaf (patch)
tree8bf06a8f23f1aeb42a3f1a2c1867d22b5da34466 /arch/arm64/kernel
parent8eb858c44b98e0326bb32fca34ae671995cd73bb (diff)
downloadlinux-877ace9eab7de032f954533afd5d1ecd0cf62eaf.tar.bz2
arm64: spectre: increase parameters that can be used to turn off bhb mitigation individually
In our environment, it was found that the mitigation BHB has a great impact on the benchmark performance. For example, in the lmbench test, the "process fork && exit" test performance drops by 20%. So it is necessary to have the ability to turn off the mitigation individually through cmdline, thus avoiding having to compile the kernel by adjusting the config. Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1661514050-22263-1-git-send-email-liusong@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
index 40be3a7c2c53..bd1690335bb9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
@@ -988,6 +988,14 @@ static void this_cpu_set_vectors(enum arm64_bp_harden_el1_vectors slot)
isb();
}
+static bool __read_mostly __nospectre_bhb;
+static int __init parse_spectre_bhb_param(char *str)
+{
+ __nospectre_bhb = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("nospectre_bhb", parse_spectre_bhb_param);
+
void spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
{
bp_hardening_cb_t cpu_cb;
@@ -1001,7 +1009,7 @@ void spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
/* No point mitigating Spectre-BHB alone. */
} else if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY)) {
pr_info_once("spectre-bhb mitigation disabled by compile time option\n");
- } else if (cpu_mitigations_off()) {
+ } else if (cpu_mitigations_off() || __nospectre_bhb) {
pr_info_once("spectre-bhb mitigation disabled by command line option\n");
} else if (supports_ecbhb(SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU)) {
state = SPECTRE_MITIGATED;