From 55d04dff0fcf5d1c3f0d6edf6df86d82fa4c053b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:22:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] New kernel option nowait allows disabling the use of the wait
 instruction.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
---
 arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
index e40bd6fccea58..53e4496de6b61 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
@@ -71,11 +71,27 @@ static void au1k_wait(void)
 		: : "r" (au1k_wait));
 }
 
+static int __initdata nowait = 0;
+
+int __init wait_disable(char *s)
+{
+	nowait = 1;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+__setup("nowait", wait_disable);
+
 static inline void check_wait(void)
 {
 	struct cpuinfo_mips *c = &current_cpu_data;
 
 	printk("Checking for 'wait' instruction... ");
+	if (nowait) {
+		printk (" disabled.\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	switch (c->cputype) {
 	case CPU_R3081:
 	case CPU_R3081E:
-- 
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