Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL call to save and restore

2014-10-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 13:16 +0530, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote: > PORE can be programmed to restore hypervisor registers when waking up > from deep cpu idle states like winkle. Tell us a bit more about what "PORE" is. IE, explain a tiny engine will reconfigure the core and its ucode can be patched to

[PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL call to save and restore

2014-10-01 Thread Shreyas B. Prabhu
PORE can be programmed to restore hypervisor registers when waking up from deep cpu idle states like winkle. Add call to pass SPR address and value to OPAL, which in turn will program PORE to restore the register state. Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Macker