Patch "x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:42:58 -0800
Subject: x86/mm: Add a 'noinvpcid' boot option to turn off INVPCID

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e upstream.

This adds a chicken bit to turn off INVPCID in case something goes wrong. It's an early_param() because we do TLB flushes before we parse __setup() parameters.

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c        |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

@@ -2519,6 +2519,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 
 	nointroute	[IA-64]
 
+	noinvpcid	[X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
+
 	nojitter	[IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
 
 	no-kvmclock	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver

@@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ static int __init x86_mpx_setup(char *s)
 }
 __setup("nompx", x86_mpx_setup);
 
+static int __init x86_noinvpcid_setup(char *s)
+{
+	/* noinvpcid doesn't accept parameters */
+	if (s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* do not emit a message if the feature is not present */
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID))
+		return 0;
+
+	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID);
+	pr_info("noinvpcid: INVPCID feature disabled\n");
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("noinvpcid", x86_noinvpcid_setup);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 static int cachesize_override = -1;
 static int disable_x86_serial_nr = 1;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-uninline-switch_mm.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-a-noinvpcid-boot-option-to-turn-off-invpcid.patch queue-4.4/x86-irq-do-not-substract-irq_tlb_count-from-irq_call_count.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-if-invpcid-is-available-use-it-to-flush-global-mappings.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-add-invpcid-helpers.patch queue-4.4/sched-core-add-switch_mm_irqs_off-and-use-it-in-the-scheduler.patch queue-4.4/arm-hide-finish_arch_post_lock_switch-from-modules.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-sched-core-turn-off-irqs-in-switch_mm.patch queue-4.4/mm-mmu_context-sched-core-fix-mmu_context.h-assumption.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-build-arch-x86-mm-tlb.c-even-on-smp.patch queue-4.4/sched-core-idle_task_exit-shouldn-t-use-switch_mm_irqs_off.patch