x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:49:10 +0000 (19:49 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:46:13 +0000 (11:46 +0100)
commit5b5e4d623ec8a34689df98e42d038a3b594d2ff9
tree07a91d5157c330a4ca7596d7c657e7f0af049375
parentaa77bfb354c495fc4361199e63fc5765b9e1e783
x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off

Swap storage is restricted to max_swapfile_size (~16TB on x86_64) whenever
the system is deemed affected by L1TF vulnerability. Even though the limit
is quite high for most deployments it seems to be too restrictive for
deployments which are willing to live with the mitigation disabled.

We have a customer to deploy 8x 6,4TB PCIe/NVMe SSD swap devices which is
clearly out of the limit.

Drop the swap restriction when l1tf=off is specified. It also doesn't make
much sense to warn about too much memory for the l1tf mitigation when it is
forcefully disabled by the administrator.

[ tglx: Folded the documentation delta change ]

Fixes: 377eeaa8e11f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181113184910.26697-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/mm/init.c