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

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 26 16:12:09 AEST 2016



On Tuesday 26 July 2016 11:11 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Will do. Will wait for any feedback on the macro name
for the patch 1 of this series.

Maddy

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



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