There are cases when activating of Common Not Private (CNP) feature
might not be desirable; this patch allows to forcefully disable CNP
even it is supported by hardware.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.mur...@arm.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  4 ++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c                  | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 0549662..3c1e45d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2560,6 +2560,10 @@
 
        noclflush       [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
 
+       nocnp           [ARM64]
+                       Disable CNP (Common not Private translations)
+                       even if it is supported by processor.
+
        nodelayacct     [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
 
        nodsp           [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 83809a8..9bceca3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -771,6 +771,20 @@ static bool has_no_hw_prefetch(const struct 
arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int _
                MIDR_CPU_VAR_REV(1, MIDR_REVISION_MASK));
 }
 
+static bool nocnp;
+
+static int __init early_nocnp(char *p)
+{
+       nocnp = true;
+       return 0;
+}
+early_param("nocnp", early_nocnp);
+
+static bool has_useable_cnp(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int 
scope)
+{
+       return has_cpuid_feature(entry, scope) && !nocmp;
+}
+
 static bool runs_at_el2(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int 
__unused)
 {
        return is_kernel_in_hyp_mode();
@@ -905,7 +919,7 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] 
= {
                .desc = "Common not Private translations",
                .capability = ARM64_HAS_CNP,
                .def_scope = SCOPE_SYSTEM,
-               .matches = has_cpuid_feature,
+               .matches = has_useable_cnp,
                .sys_reg = SYS_ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1,
                .sign = FTR_UNSIGNED,
                .field_pos = ID_AA64MMFR2_CNP_SHIFT,
-- 
2.0.0

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