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Commit 814165e9fd ("x86/cpu: Add the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter")
recently expanded the user's ability to break their system horribly by
overriding effective CPU flags. This was reflected with updates to the
documentation to try and make people aware that this is dangerous.
To further reduce the risk of users mistaking this for a "real feature",
and try to help them figure out why their kernel is tainted if they do
use it:
- Upgrade the existing printk to pr_warn, to help ensure kernel logs
reflect what changes are in effect.
- Print an extra warning that tries to be as dramatic as possible, while
also highlighting the fact that it tainted the kernel.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303-setcpuid-taint-louder-v1-2-8d255032cb4c@google.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.