[v3,3/3] arm64: Introduce command line parameter to disable CNP

Commit Message

Vladimir Murzin May 18, 2018, 9:46 a.m. UTC

There are cases when activating of Common Not Private (CNP) feature
might not be desirable; this patch allows to forcefully disable CNP
even it is supported by hardware.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <[e-mail]>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  4 ++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c                  | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1d1d53f..181ecca 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2603,6 +2603,10 @@ 
 
 	noclflush	[BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
 
+	nocnp		[ARM64]
+			Disable CNP (Common not Private translations)
+			even if it is supported by processor.
+
 	nodelayacct	[KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
 
 	nodsp		[SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 78de218..80fe8fa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -826,6 +826,15 @@  static bool has_no_hw_prefetch(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int _
 		MIDR_CPU_VAR_REV(1, MIDR_REVISION_MASK));
 }
 
+static bool nocnp;
+
+static int __init early_nocnp(char *p)
+{
+	nocnp = true;
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("nocnp", early_nocnp);
+
 static bool __maybe_unused
 has_useable_cnp(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int scope)
 {
@@ -833,7 +842,7 @@  has_useable_cnp(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int scope)
 	if (elfcorehdr_size)
 		return false;
 #endif
-	return has_cpuid_feature(entry, scope);
+	return has_cpuid_feature(entry, scope) && !nocnp;
 }
 
 static bool runs_at_el2(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int __unused)