linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] l1tf: drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off

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Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:27:44 -0800
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] l1tf: drop the swap storage limit restriction when
 l1tf=off

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 07:49:10PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> 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.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

-Andi