Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] x86/split_lock: Re-define the kernel param option for split_lock_detect

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Fri Mar 20 2020 - 20:46:30 EST


On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 01:05:11PM +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -4666,7 +4666,10 @@
> instructions that access data across cache line
> boundaries will result in an alignment check exception.
>
> - off - not enabled
> + disable - disabled, neither kernel nor kvm can use it.

Are command line arguments "ABI"? The "=off" variant isn't upstream yet,
but it is in TIP. I'm ok with this change, but perhaps this patch (or at
least this part of this patch) needs to catch up with the older one within
the 5.7 merge window (or sometime before v5.7).

Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>