On 01/25/2016 02:03 PM, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: > Commit: 7a7868326d77 introduced PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag to > remove assumption of MMCRA[SLOT] with respect to > PPMU_ALT_SIPR flag. Commit 7a7868326d77's message also > specifies that Power8 does not support MMCRA[SLOT]. > But still PPMU_HAS_SSLOT flag managed to get into > Power8 code. Patch to remove the same from Power8 flags.
Please follow the present protocol of referring to a commit ID like this (<hash_code>: ""). Also this PMU flag was added originally through the base POWER8 PMU enablement commit (e05b9b9e5c1: "powerpc/perf: Power8 PMU support") which can be mentioned in the "Fixes:" part.