[PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Load Monitor Register Tests
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed May 4 21:31:04 AEST 2016
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 20:43 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 16:08 -0500, Jack Miller wrote:
> > +int ebb_lmr(void)
> > +{
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + SKIP_IF(!ebb_is_supported());
>
> We skip this test currently as EBB is not enabled on POWER9.
>
> On POWER8 we enable EBB in the PMU code. Should we do this elsewhere for
> POWER9 since EBB doesn't directly require the PMU?
Probably. But we will need to check that if the PMU code is *not* enabled we
still do the context switching of EBB regs correctly. We probably do, but I
don't now for sure.
cheers
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