On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 03:42:39PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote: > The MT ASE cannot be used with CPUs that implement older releases of the > MIPS architecture than release 2, and is replaced in release 6. Encode > these constraints in Kconfig to ensure that MT code is only built as > part of kernels targeting an appropriate revision of the architecture. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.16+ > --- > > arch/mips/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig > index cee5f93..ef248cf 100644 > --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig > @@ -2114,7 +2114,7 @@ config CPU_R4K_CACHE_TLB > > config MIPS_MT_SMP > bool "MIPS MT SMP support (1 TC on each available VPE)" > - depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING > + depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING && CPU_MIPSR2 Right now this line is depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING && !CPU_MIPSR6 which I believe is correct. The MT SMP support aka VSMP had been carefully crafted to work on older ASEs that is all use of MIPS MT instructions or features was carefully protected by cpu_has_mipsmt or similar. Ralf
