On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:24:03 +0530
Gautham R Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 07:23:46PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > POWER9 does not use this field, so it should be moved into the POWER8
> > code. Update the documentation in the paca struct too.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 12 ++++++++++--
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S | 13 +++++++------
> > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> > index 708c3e592eeb..bbb59e226a9f 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
> > @@ -165,11 +165,19 @@ struct paca_struct {
> > #endif
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV
> > - /* Per-core mask tracking idle threads and a lock bit-[L][TTTTTTTT] */
> > + /* CPU idle fields */
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Per-core word used to synchronize between threads. See
> > + * asm/cpuidle.h, PNV_CORE_IDLE_*
> > + */
> > u32 *core_idle_state_ptr;
> > - u8 thread_idle_state; /* PNV_THREAD_RUNNING/NAP/SLEEP */
> > /* Mask to indicate thread id in core */
> > u8 thread_mask;
> > +
> > + /* POWER8 specific fields */
> > + /* PNV_THREAD_RUNNING/NAP/SLEEP */
> > + u8 thread_idle_state;
>
> I am planning to use this in POWER9 DD1 to distinguish between a
> SRESET received when the thread was running vs when it was in stop.
> Unfortunately the SRR1[46:47] are not cleared in the former case. So
> we need a way in software to distinguish between the two.
Okay, we can skip this for now. It was not a critical part of my
patches, just a tidy up.
Thanks,
Nick
