Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] powerpc/powernv: Introduce sysfs control for fastsleep workaround behavior

2015-04-20 Thread Preeti U Murthy
On 04/20/2015 10:32 AM, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote: Fastsleep is one of the idle state which cpuidle subsystem currently uses on power8 machines. In this state L2 cache is brought down to a threshold voltage. Therefore when the core is in fastsleep, the communication between L2 and L3 needs to be

[PATCH v6 3/3] powerpc/powernv: Introduce sysfs control for fastsleep workaround behavior

2015-04-19 Thread Shreyas B. Prabhu
Fastsleep is one of the idle state which cpuidle subsystem currently uses on power8 machines. In this state L2 cache is brought down to a threshold voltage. Therefore when the core is in fastsleep, the communication between L2 and L3 needs to be fenced. But there is a bug in the current power8