From 0e5e7f5e9700661c3ddd95501743fb52fec1ab07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 16:33:52 +1000 Subject: powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE We are running low on CPU feature bits, so we only want to use them when it's really necessary. CPU_FTR_SUBCORE is only used in one place, and only in C, so we don't need it in order to make asm patching work. It can only be set on "Power8" CPUs, which in practice means POWER8, POWER8E and POWER8NVL. There are no plans to implement it on future CPUs, but if there ever were we could retrofit it then. Although KVM uses subcores, it never looks at the CPU feature, it either looks at the ISA level or the threads_per_subcore value. So drop the CPU feature and do a PVR check instead. Drop the device tree "subcore" feature as we no longer support doing anything with it, and we will drop it from skiboot too. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c index 76eebba13a1d..4c7656dc4e04 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c @@ -643,7 +643,6 @@ static struct dt_cpu_feature_match __initdata {"processor-control-facility", feat_enable_dbell, CPU_FTR_DBELL}, {"processor-control-facility-v3", feat_enable_dbell, CPU_FTR_DBELL}, {"processor-utilization-of-resources-register", feat_enable_purr, 0}, - {"subcore", feat_enable, CPU_FTR_SUBCORE}, {"no-execute", feat_enable, 0}, {"strong-access-ordering", feat_enable, CPU_FTR_SAO}, {"cache-inhibited-large-page", feat_enable_large_ci, 0}, -- cgit v1.2.3