[PATCH] [POWERPC] Emulate isel (Integer Select) instruction

[Kim Phillips]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:41:00 -0600
Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:

> Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> > 
> >> +#define WARN_EMULATE(type)						\
> >> +	do {								\
> >> +	    static unsigned int count;					\
> >> +	    if (count++ < 10)						\
> >> +		    pr_warning("%s used emulated %s instruction\n",	\
> >> +			       current->comm, type);			\
> > 
> > Thinking about this a bit more, if an instruction gets emulated 10
> > times then I don't care, since it's probably only cost me 10
> > microseconds or so.  If it gets emulated a million times then I might
> > want to look at it.  So in fact this approach doesn't give me the
> > information I need to know whether there is a real problem or not.
> 
> Maybe print the first time, then when it's happened 10 times, then 100, 
> then 1000, etc.
> 
or just use printk_ratelimit().

Kim