[RFC PATCH 6/9] powerpc: modify __SOFTEN_TEST to support tri-state soft_enabled flag

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 15:41:15 AEST 2016


On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:22:19 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Foundation patch to support checking of new flag for
> "paca->soft_enabled". Modify the condition checking for the
> "soft_enabled" from "equal" to "greater than or equal to".

Rather than a "tri-state" and the mystery "2" state, can you
make a #define for that guy, and use levels.

0-> all enabled
1-> "linux" interrupts disabled
2-> PMU also disabled
etc.

Thanks,
Nick


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