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x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:42:09 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Sun, 4 Mar 2018 15:28:33 +0000 (10:28 -0500)
commit8b9694307e13a50d30504ab65afaaa9db4a64937
treed3a0dcd744fcf3a5d95d2bc0bb54dbbe19cda9ca
parent8b3c7144b1aac60ac60e3aa96c3d56693e16441e
x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option

[ Upstream commit 12c69f1e94c89d40696e83804dd2f0965b5250cd ]

The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the
original pv indirect calls in place.

That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify
paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines.

As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much
other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel
vulnerable to Spectre v2.  It was probably a debug option from the early
paravirt days.  So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131041333.2x6blhxirc2kclrq@treble
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c