On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 10:17:16 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > From: Cyril Bur <cyril...@gmail.com> > > 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 <cyril...@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 <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Series applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/07fd1761e1cd2b5ecdb470fc228d52 cheers
