[PATCH] Documentation: powerpc: Expand the DAWR acronym
Michael Neuling
mikey at neuling.org
Mon Apr 1 17:21:37 AEDT 2019
On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 16:41 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.
Hehe... thanks!
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> ---
> 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>
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