Re: [RFC PATCH 6/9] powerpc: modify __SOFTEN_TEST to support tri-state soft_enabled flag

2016-07-26 Thread Madhavan Srinivasan 



On Tuesday 26 July 2016 11:11 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:22:19 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan  wrote:


Foundation patch to support checking of new flag for
"paca->soft_enabled". Modify the condition checking for the
"soft_enabled" from "equal" to "greater than or equal to".

Rather than a "tri-state" and the mystery "2" state, can you
make a #define for that guy, and use levels.


Yes. Will do. Will wait for any feedback on the macro name
for the patch 1 of this series.

Maddy


0-> all enabled
1-> "linux" interrupts disabled
2-> PMU also disabled
etc.

Thanks,
Nick



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Re: [RFC PATCH 6/9] powerpc: modify __SOFTEN_TEST to support tri-state soft_enabled flag

2016-07-25 Thread Nicholas Piggin 
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:22:19 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan  wrote:

> Foundation patch to support checking of new flag for
> "paca->soft_enabled". Modify the condition checking for the
> "soft_enabled" from "equal" to "greater than or equal to".

Rather than a "tri-state" and the mystery "2" state, can you
make a #define for that guy, and use levels.

0-> all enabled
1-> "linux" interrupts disabled
2-> PMU also disabled
etc.

Thanks,
Nick
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