Re: [PATCH] Fix performance monitor on machines with logical PVR

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> This change works around this problem by taking out the PMU > information from the cputable entries for the logical PVR values, and > changing identify_cpu so that the second call to it won't overwrite > the PMU information that was established by the first call (the one > with the real PVR), bu

[PATCH] Fix performance monitor on machines with logical PVR

2007-10-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Some IBM machines supply a "logical" PVR (processor version register) value in the device tree in the cpu nodes rather than the real PVR. This is used for instance to indicate that the processors in a POWER6 partition have been configured by the hypervisor to run in POWER5+ mode rather than POWER6