[PATCH stable 4.14 02/23] powerpc/pseries: Support firmware disable of RFI flush

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri May 25 20:09:33 AEST 2018


Some versions of firmware will have a setting that can be configured
to disable the RFI flush, add support for it.

Fixes: 8989d56878a7 ("powerpc/pseries: Query hypervisor for RFI flush settings")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
(cherry picked from commit 582605a429e20ae68fd0b041b2e840af296edd08)
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index ae4f596273b5..8bbbb4e753b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -482,7 +482,8 @@ static void pseries_setup_rfi_flush(void)
 		if (types == L1D_FLUSH_NONE)
 			types = L1D_FLUSH_FALLBACK;
 
-		if (!(result.behaviour & H_CPU_BEHAV_L1D_FLUSH_PR))
+		if ((!(result.behaviour & H_CPU_BEHAV_L1D_FLUSH_PR)) ||
+		    (!(result.behaviour & H_CPU_BEHAV_FAVOUR_SECURITY)))
 			enable = false;
 	} else {
 		/* Default to fallback if case hcall is not available */
-- 
2.14.1



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