On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > We have been a bit slack about updating the CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE and > CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS masks. When we added POWER8, and also POWER8E we forgot > to update the ALWAYS mask. And when we added POWER8_DD1 we forgot to > update both the POSSIBLE and ALWAYS masks. > > Luckily this hasn't caused any actual bugs AFAICS. Failing to update the > ALWAYS mask just forgoes a potential optimisation opportunity. Failing > to update the POSSIBLE mask for POWER8_DD1 is also OK because it only > removes a bit rather than adding any. > > Regardless they should all be in both masks so as to avoid any future > bugs when the set of ALWAYS/POSSIBLE bits changes, or the masks > themselves change. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Thanks for catching that. Acked-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
