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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>2020-07-01 12:52:29 +0530
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2020-07-16 13:00:21 +1000
commitc83040192f3763b243ece26073d61a895b4a230f (patch)
treeeb36ecf84155d94867a11e5317a5d5439eec5f89 /arch
parentdd3d9aa5589c52efaec12ffeb84f0f5f8208fbc3 (diff)
downloadlinux-c83040192f3763b243ece26073d61a895b4a230f.tar.bz2
powerpc/pmem: Restrict papr_scm to P8 and above.
The PAPR based virtualized persistent memory devices are only supported on POWER9 and above. In the followup patch, the kernel will switch the persistent memory cache flush functions to use a new `dcbf` variant instruction. The new instructions even though added in ISA 3.1 works even on P8 and P9 because these are implemented as a variant of existing `dcbf` and `hwsync` and on P8 and P9 behaves as such. Considering these devices are only supported on P8 and above, update the driver to prevent a P7-compat guest from using persistent memory devices. We don't update of_pmem driver with the same condition, because, on bare-metal, the firmware enables pmem support only on P9 and above. There the kernel depends on OPAL firmware to restrict exposing persistent memory related device tree entries on older hardware. of_pmem.ko is written without any arch dependency and we don't want to add ppc64 specific cpu feature check in of_pmem driver. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701072235.223558-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pmem.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pmem.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pmem.c
index f860a897a9e0..2347e1038f58 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pmem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pmem.c
@@ -147,6 +147,12 @@ const struct of_device_id drc_pmem_match[] = {
static int pseries_pmem_init(void)
{
+ /*
+ * Only supported on POWER8 and above.
+ */
+ if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S))
+ return 0;
+
pmem_node = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "ibm,persistent-memory");
if (!pmem_node)
return 0;