diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
index 15ac8e8dcfdf0a6b88abdd31737aac19c19f2a1a..603d3c62e8c765d20e51ac22cf79bf3ef8e02b91 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ its hardware characteristcs.
 	* arm,buffer-size: size of contiguous buffer space for TMC ETR
 	 (embedded trace router)
 
+	* arm,scatter-gather: boolean. Indicates that the TMC-ETR can safely
+	  use the SG mode on this system.
 
 Example:
 
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.c
index bb57e7f57eb5d8aa99703b222ffa72a99a285fc3..bc8fc860c4738c60485d91b38c9b00083c9ba6b5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/miscdevice.h>
+#include <linux/property.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
@@ -296,6 +297,12 @@ const struct attribute_group *coresight_tmc_groups[] = {
 	NULL,
 };
 
+static inline bool tmc_etr_can_use_sg(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
+{
+	return fwnode_property_present(drvdata->dev->fwnode,
+				       "arm,scatter-gather");
+}
+
 /* Detect and initialise the capabilities of a TMC ETR */
 static int tmc_etr_setup_caps(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata,
 			     u32 devid, void *dev_caps)
@@ -305,7 +312,7 @@ static int tmc_etr_setup_caps(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata,
 	/* Set the unadvertised capabilities */
 	tmc_etr_init_caps(drvdata, (u32)(unsigned long)dev_caps);
 
-	if (!(devid & TMC_DEVID_NOSCAT))
+	if (!(devid & TMC_DEVID_NOSCAT) && tmc_etr_can_use_sg(drvdata))
 		tmc_etr_set_cap(drvdata, TMC_ETR_SG);
 
 	/* Check if the AXI address width is available */