[PATCH V3 1/2] powerpc: Parse the command line before calling CAS

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 08:51:13 AEDT 2017



On 28/02/17 17:03, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
> On POWER9 the hypervisor requires the guest to decide whether it would
> like to use a hash or radix mmu model at the time it calls
> ibm,client-architecture-support (CAS) based on what the hypervisor has
> said it's allowed to do. It is possible to disable radix by passing
> "disable_radix" on the command line. The next patch will add support for
> the new CAS format, thus we need to parse the command line before calling
> CAS so we can correctly select which mmu we would like to use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> V1 -> V3:
>  - Reword commit message for clarity. No functional change
> ---

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>


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