Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

Pull main powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This time around, the powerpc merges are going to be a little bit more
  complicated than usual.

  This is the main pull request with most of the work for this merge
  window.  I will describe it a bit more further down.

  There is some additional cpuidle driver work, however I haven't
  included it in this tree as it depends on some work in tip/timer-core
  which Thomas accidentally forgot to put in a topic branch.  Since I
  didn't want to carry all of that tip timer stuff in powerpc -next, I
  setup a separate branch on top of Thomas tree with just that cpuidle
  driver in it, and Stephen has been carrying that in next separately
  for a while now.  I'll send a separate pull request for it.

  Additionally, two new pieces in this tree add users for a sysfs API
  that Tejun and Greg have been deprecating in drivers-core-next.
  Thankfully Greg reverted the patch that removes the old API so this
  merge can happen cleanly, but once merged, I will send a patch
  adjusting our new code to the new API so that Greg can send you the
  removal patch.

  Now as for the content of this branch, we have a lot of perf work for
  power8 new counters including support for our new "nest" counters
  (also called 24x7) under pHyp (not natively yet).

  We have new functionality when running under the OPAL firmware
  (non-virtualized or KVM host), such as access to the firmware error
  logs and service processor dumps, system parameters and sensors, along
  with a hwmon driver for the latter.

  There's also a bunch of bug fixes accross the board, some LE fixes,
  and a nice set of selftests for validating our various types of copy
  loops.

  On the Freescale side, we see mostly new chip/board revisions, some
  clock updates, better support for machine checks and debug exceptions,
  etc..."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (70 commits)
  powerpc/book3s: Fix CFAR clobbering issue in machine check handler.
  powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
  powerpc/le: Big endian arguments for ppc_rtas()
  powerpc: Use default set of netfilter modules (CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n)
  powerpc/defconfigs: Enable THP in pseries defconfig
  powerpc/mm: Make sure a local_irq_disable prevent a parallel THP split
  powerpc: Rate-limit users spamming kernel log buffer
  powerpc/perf: Fix handling of L3 events with bank == 1
  powerpc/perf/hv_{gpci, 24x7}: Add documentation of device attributes
  powerpc/perf: Add kconfig option for hypervisor provided counters
  powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv 24x7 interface
  powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv gpci (get performance counter info) interface
  powerpc/perf: Add macros for defining event fields & formats
  powerpc/perf: Add a shared interface to get gpci version and capabilities
  powerpc/perf: Add 24x7 interface headers
  powerpc/perf: Add hv_gpci interface header
  powerpc: Add hvcalls for 24x7 and gpci (Get Performance Counter Info)
  sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group
  powerpc/perf: Enable BHRB access for EBB events
  powerpc/perf: Add BHRB constraint and IFM MMCRA handling for EBB
  ...

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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b9fcecc706ab..05e532984c13 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -618,6 +618,15 @@ config CMDLINE
 	  some command-line options at build time by entering them here.  In
 	  most cases you will need to specify the root device here.
 
+config CMDLINE_FORCE
+	bool "Always use the default kernel command string"
+	depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
+	help
+	  Always use the default kernel command string, even if the boot
+	  loader passes other arguments to the kernel.
+	  This is useful if you cannot or don't want to change the
+	  command-line options your boot loader passes to the kernel.
+
 config EXTRA_TARGETS
 	string "Additional default image types"
 	help