Some power8 revisions have a hardware bug where we can lose a Performance Monitor (PMU) exception under certain circumstances.
We will be adding a workaround for this case, see the next commit for details. The observed behaviour is that writing PMAO doesn't cause an exception as we would expect, hence the name of the feature. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h | 2 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) v2: Set the bit directly via the cputable entry for POWER8E. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h index 617cc76..6a30f05 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ extern const char *powerpc_base_platform; #define CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0200000000000000) #define CPU_FTR_DAWR LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0400000000000000) #define CPU_FTR_DABRX LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0800000000000000) +#define CPU_FTR_PMAO_BUG LONG_ASM_CONST(0x1000000000000000) #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ @@ -445,6 +446,7 @@ extern const char *powerpc_base_platform; CPU_FTR_ICSWX | CPU_FTR_CFAR | CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_VMX_COPY | \ CPU_FTR_DBELL | CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR | CPU_FTR_DAWR | \ CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S | CPU_FTR_TM_COMP) +#define CPU_FTRS_POWER8E (CPU_FTRS_POWER8 | CPU_FTR_PMAO_BUG) #define CPU_FTRS_CELL (CPU_FTR_USE_TB | CPU_FTR_LWSYNC | \ CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 | CPU_FTR_CTRL | \ CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC_COMP | CPU_FTR_MMCRA | CPU_FTR_SMT | \ diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c index 6c8dd5d..c1faade 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static struct cpu_spec __initdata cpu_specs[] = { .pvr_mask = 0xffff0000, .pvr_value = 0x004b0000, .cpu_name = "POWER8E (raw)", - .cpu_features = CPU_FTRS_POWER8, + .cpu_features = CPU_FTRS_POWER8E, .cpu_user_features = COMMON_USER_POWER8, .cpu_user_features2 = COMMON_USER2_POWER8, .mmu_features = MMU_FTRS_POWER8, -- 1.8.3.2 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
