x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+
[upstream cc51e542 for 4.4. Note there might be still a trivial conflict with the backport for b0a182f8, but should be easy to resolve] On Nehalem and newer core CPUs the CPU cache internally uses 44 bits physical address space. The L1TF workaround is limited by this internal cache address width, and needs to have one bit free there for the mitigation to work. Older client systems report only 36bit physical address space so the range check decides that L1TF is not mitigated for a 36bit phys/32GB system with some memory holes. But since these actually have the larger internal cache width this warning is bogus because it would only really be needed if the system had more than 43bits of memory. Add a new internal x86_cache_bits field. Normally it is the same as the physical bits field reported by CPUID, but for Nehalem and newerforce it to be at least 44bits. Change the L1TF memory size warning to use the new cache_bits field to avoid bogus warnings and remove the bogus comment about memory size. Fixes: 17dbca11 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf") Reported-by: George Anchev <studio@anchev.net> Reported-by: Christopher Snowhill <kode54@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michael Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824170351.34874-1-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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