From: Aneesh Kumar K.V Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:35:31 +0000 (+0530) Subject: powerpc/mm/radix: Add a kernel command line to disable radix X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b275bfb2696387be216db5b7372ee9dcf3f05b80;p=linux-beck.git powerpc/mm/radix: Add a kernel command line to disable radix This patch adds the kernel command line disable_radix which disable the radix MMU mode even if firmware indicates radix support via ibm,pa-features device tree node. This helps in testing different MMU mode easily. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 738bae4a5958..bba7ef30d74e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -929,6 +929,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. disable= [IPV6] See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt. + disable_radix [PPC] + Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 + disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP] Format: The number of initial APIC ID for the diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c index 48434be99a07..7a01113d525c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c @@ -646,6 +646,14 @@ static void __init early_reserve_mem(void) #endif } +static bool disable_radix; +static int __init parse_disable_radix(char *p) +{ + disable_radix = true; + return 0; +} +early_param("disable_radix", parse_disable_radix); + void __init early_init_devtree(void *params) { phys_addr_t limit; @@ -735,6 +743,11 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params) */ spinning_secondaries = boot_cpu_count - 1; #endif + /* + * now fixup radix MMU mode based on kernel command line + */ + if (disable_radix) + cur_cpu_spec->mmu_features &= ~MMU_FTR_RADIX; #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV /* Scan and build the list of machine check recoverable ranges */