[PATCH] powernv: Clear SPRN_PSSCR when a POWER9 CPU comes online

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Wed Nov 23 10:35:16 AEDT 2016


On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 10:30 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Ensure that PSSCR is set to a safe value corresponding to no
> > state-loss each time a POWER9 CPU comes online.
> 
> Is this a bug fix? I can't tell from the change log.

There are no known bugs it's fixing.  

It's just safer to run with a known default value, rather than what we randomly
inherit from previous firmware.

Mikey


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