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>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 97bc24101896c15a6e86eef397afa7b28db11026..19e9f2e77bdf46ab7885a30e0d047d94b92a2981 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2476,8 +2476,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        norandmaps      Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
                        echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
 
-       noreplace-paravirt      [X86,IA-64,PV_OPS] Don't patch paravirt_ops
-
        noreplace-smp   [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
                        with UP alternatives
 

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index fb3d8ca0f0a26155faf48fcd9394a82b5dd43197..9b5f8e6a986471a8088d425b8ee1273cb1f5d10a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -41,17 +41,6 @@ static int __init setup_noreplace_smp(char *str)
 }
 __setup("noreplace-smp", setup_noreplace_smp);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
-static int __initdata_or_module noreplace_paravirt = 0;
-
-static int __init setup_noreplace_paravirt(char *str)
-{
-       noreplace_paravirt = 1;
-       return 1;
-}
-__setup("noreplace-paravirt", setup_noreplace_paravirt);
-#endif
-
 #define DPRINTK(fmt, args...)                                          \
 do {                                                                   \
        if (debug_alternative)                                          \
@@ -574,9 +563,6 @@ void __init_or_module apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch_site *start,
        struct paravirt_patch_site *p;
        char insnbuf[MAX_PATCH_LEN];
 
-       if (noreplace_paravirt)
-               return;
-
        for (p = start; p < end; p++) {
                unsigned int used;