[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: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
index 47727a6f7346..5aca01ddd81f 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom.c
@@ -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