Commit 57ee67af authored by Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar Benjamin Herrenschmidt Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ppc64: Fix CONFIG_ALTIVEC not set

The code that sets the altivec capability of the CPU based on firmware
informations can enable altivec when the kernel has CONFIG_ALTIVEC
disabled.  This results in "interesting" crashes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1caf1f0f
......@@ -916,6 +916,7 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
}
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
/* Check if we have a VMX and eventually update CPU features */
prop = (u32 *)get_flat_dt_prop(node, "ibm,vmx", NULL);
if (prop && (*prop) > 0) {
......@@ -929,6 +930,7 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features |= CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
cur_cpu_spec->cpu_user_features |= PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_ALTIVEC */
/*
* Check for an SMT capable CPU and set the CPU feature. We do
......
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