Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0

2015-08-14 Thread Shreyas B Prabhu
On 08/05/2015 12:38 PM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: > Section 3.7 of Version 1.2 of the Power8 Processor User's Manual > prescribes that updates to HID0 be preceded by a SYNC instruction and > followed by an ISYNC instruction (Page 91). > > Create an inline function name update_power8_hid0() which

Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0

2015-08-13 Thread Sam Bobroff
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 12:38:31PM +0530, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: > Section 3.7 of Version 1.2 of the Power8 Processor User's Manual > prescribes that updates to HID0 be preceded by a SYNC instruction and > followed by an ISYNC instruction (Page 91). > > Create an inline function name update_powe

[PATCH v3] powerpc: Add an inline function to update POWER8 HID0

2015-08-05 Thread Gautham R. Shenoy
Section 3.7 of Version 1.2 of the Power8 Processor User's Manual prescribes that updates to HID0 be preceded by a SYNC instruction and followed by an ISYNC instruction (Page 91). Create an inline function name update_power8_hid0() which follows this recipe and invoke it from the static split core