[v2] powerpc/perf: use MSR to report privilege level on P9 DD1

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jan 18 23:10:27 AEDT 2017


On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 03:42:56 UTC, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> Since SIER and SIAR updates are not valid for some
> samples, patch forces the use of MSR and regs->nip instead
> for misc_flag updates. This is done by adding a new ppmu
> flag and updating user_siar value in perf_read_regs() accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/27593d72c4ad451ed13af35354b941

cheers


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