Re: [PATCH] Added one_reg interface for timer registers

2013-02-08 Thread Scott Wood
On 02/08/2013 04:06:14 AM, Bharat Bhushan wrote: If userspace wants to change some specific bits of TSR (timer status register) then it uses GET/SET_SREGS ioctl interface. So the steps will be: i) user-space will make get ioctl, ii) change TSR in userspace iii) then make set

[PATCH][v4] PPC: add paravirt idle loop for 64-bit book E

2013-02-08 Thread Stuart Yoder
From: Stuart Yoder Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder --- -removed KVM prefix to patch subject, patch is not KVM specific arch/powerpc/kernel/epapr_hcalls.S |2 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3e.S | 32 ++-- 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff

[PATCH] Added one_reg interface for timer registers

2013-02-08 Thread Bharat Bhushan
If userspace wants to change some specific bits of TSR (timer status register) then it uses GET/SET_SREGS ioctl interface. So the steps will be: i) user-space will make get ioctl, ii) change TSR in userspace iii) then make set ioctl. It can happen that TSR gets changed by kerne