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x86/platform/uv: Disable UV BAU by default
authorAlex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:18:29 +0000 (14:18 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:45:54 +0000 (11:45 +0200)
commit1c532e00a0c649ac6f0703e8c2e095c9c1d30625
treea1db0eabd454d16fc310638610f4e97bcc37798e
parentc05c2ec96bb8b7310da1055c7b9d786a3ec6dc0c
x86/platform/uv: Disable UV BAU by default

For several years, the common practice has been to boot UVs with the
"nobau" parameter on the command line, to disable the BAU.  We've
decided that it makes more sense to just disable the BAU by default in
the kernel, and provide the option to turn it on, if desired.

For now, having the on/off switch doesn't buy us any more than just
reversing the logic would, but we're working towards having the BAU
enabled by default on UV4.  When those changes are in place, having the
on/off switch will make more sense than an enable flag, since the
default behavior will be different depending on the system version.

I've also added a bit of documentation for the new parameter to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459451909-121845-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv_bau.h
arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c