[PATCH] Documentation: powerpc: Expand the DAWR acronym
Joel Stanley
joel at jms.id.au
Mon Apr 1 17:11:56 AEDT 2019
Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
---
Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt
index 2feaa6619658..f6c24e54ce83 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
DAWR issues on POWER9
============================
-On POWER9 the DAWR can cause a checkstop if it points to cache
-inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to disinguish CI
-memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is disabled by
-this commit:
+On POWER9 the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can cause a checkstop
+if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to
+disinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is
+disabled by this commit:
commit 9654153158d3e0684a1bdb76dbababdb7111d5a0
Author: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
--
2.20.1
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