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authorCyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>2017-10-12 21:17:16 +1100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-10-20 11:10:56 +1100
commit07fd1761e1cd2b5ecdb470fc228d52ccdf75e05b (patch)
tree20d106a019dbfbab1f1401d85a96704bc7b20579 /Documentation/admin-guide
parentddd46ed2e61cea6d5d92f4f2fbb2eeda4a6d962f (diff)
powerpc/tm: Add commandline option to disable hardware transactional memory
Currently the kernel relies on firmware to inform it whether or not the CPU supports HTM and as long as the kernel was built with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y then it will allow userspace to make use of the facility. There may be situations where it would be advantageous for the kernel to not allow userspace to use HTM, currently the only way to achieve this is to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n. This patch adds a simple commandline option so that HTM can be disabled at boot time. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> [mpe: Simplify to a bool, move to prom.c, put doco in the right place. Always disable, regardless of initial state, to avoid user confusion.] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 05496622b4ef..ef03e6e16bdb 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3185,6 +3185,10 @@
allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
There is some performance impact when enabling this.
+ ppc_tm= [PPC]
+ Format: {"off"}
+ Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
+
print-fatal-signals=
[KNL] debug: print fatal signals