[v3, 3/4] powerpc/64s: idle POWER9 can execute stop in virtual mode

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Aug 31 21:36:19 AEST 2017


On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 04:30:35 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The hardware can execute stop in any context, and KVM does not
> require real mode because siblings do not share MMU state. This
> saves a switch to real-mode when going idle.
> 
> Acked-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/72b0d51d973beab5a06c97279b61a0

cheers


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