diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt
index d181b7c4c52203ec4395dd6225327c17577cb257..416864e9dc92f65ef9bf1cb5d6c29a3f97528307 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2cc.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ Optional properties:
   specified to indicate that such transforms are precluded.
 - arm,parity-enable : enable parity checking on the L2 cache (L220 or PL310).
 - arm,parity-disable : disable parity checking on the L2 cache (L220 or PL310).
+- arm,outer-sync-disable : disable the outer sync operation on the L2 cache.
+  Some core tiles, especially ARM PB11MPCore have a faulty L220 cache that
+  will randomly hang unless outer sync operations are disabled.
 - prefetch-data : Data prefetch. Value: <0> (forcibly disable), <1>
   (forcibly enable), property absent (retain settings set by firmware)
 - prefetch-instr : Instruction prefetch. Value: <0> (forcibly disable),
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
index 3f3008e5c6624ffd9f737a5d97b76256b59bfceb..9f9d54271aada77708a954622269eec73000dc92 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ static const struct l2c_init_data l2c310_init_fns __initconst = {
 };
 
 static int __init __l2c_init(const struct l2c_init_data *data,
-			     u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask, u32 cache_id)
+			     u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask, u32 cache_id, bool nosync)
 {
 	struct outer_cache_fns fns;
 	unsigned way_size_bits, ways;
@@ -866,6 +866,10 @@ static int __init __l2c_init(const struct l2c_init_data *data,
 	fns.configure = outer_cache.configure;
 	if (data->fixup)
 		data->fixup(l2x0_base, cache_id, &fns);
+	if (nosync) {
+		pr_info("L2C: disabling outer sync\n");
+		fns.sync = NULL;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if l2x0 controller is already enabled.  If we are booting
@@ -925,7 +929,7 @@ void __init l2x0_init(void __iomem *base, u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask)
 	if (data->save)
 		data->save(l2x0_base);
 
-	__l2c_init(data, aux_val, aux_mask, cache_id);
+	__l2c_init(data, aux_val, aux_mask, cache_id, false);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
@@ -1724,6 +1728,7 @@ int __init l2x0_of_init(u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask)
 	struct resource res;
 	u32 cache_id, old_aux;
 	u32 cache_level = 2;
+	bool nosync = false;
 
 	np = of_find_matching_node(NULL, l2x0_ids);
 	if (!np)
@@ -1762,6 +1767,8 @@ int __init l2x0_of_init(u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask)
 	if (cache_level != 2)
 		pr_err("L2C: device tree specifies invalid cache level\n");
 
+	nosync = of_property_read_bool(np, "arm,outer-sync-disable");
+
 	/* Read back current (default) hardware configuration */
 	if (data->save)
 		data->save(l2x0_base);
@@ -1776,6 +1783,6 @@ int __init l2x0_of_init(u32 aux_val, u32 aux_mask)
 	else
 		cache_id = readl_relaxed(l2x0_base + L2X0_CACHE_ID);
 
-	return __l2c_init(data, aux_val, aux_mask, cache_id);
+	return __l2c_init(data, aux_val, aux_mask, cache_id, nosync);
 }
 #endif