Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: powernv: Add boost files to export ultra-turbo frequencies

2016-12-22 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
Hi Shilpa, On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 04:43:08PM +0530, Shilpasri G Bhat wrote: > In P8+, Workload Optimized Frequency(WOF) provides the capability to > boost the cpu frequency based on the utilization of the other cpus > running in the chip. The On-Chip-Controller(OCC) firmware will control > the ac

Re: [PATCH RFC] powerpc/powernv: sysfs entry to force full IPL reboot

2016-12-22 Thread Stewart Smith
Andrew Donnellan writes: > skiboot now supports "fast reboot", a reboot procedure where skiboot > reinitialises hardware and loads a new kernel without re-IPLing the > machine. At present, fast reboot support is still experimental and is not > enabled by default, however it is intended that it wil

Re: [PATCH RFC] powerpc/powernv: sysfs entry to force full IPL reboot

2016-12-22 Thread Stewart Smith
Michael Ellerman writes: > Andrew Donnellan writes: > >> On 23/11/16 12:37, Andrew Donnellan wrote: There's existing logic in kernel/reboot.c to handle a reboot= command line parameter, which can set the reboot_mode, so my preference would be that we use that. Currently w

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix build warning on 32-bit PPC - bisected to commit 989cea5c14be

2016-12-22 Thread Larry Finger
I am getting the following warning when I build kernel 4.9-git on my PowerBook G4 with a 32-bit PPC processor: AS arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.o arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S:299:7: warning: "CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE" is not defined [-Wundef] This problem is evident after commit 989cea5c14be ("kbu

Re: [PATCH v3 13/15] livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model

2016-12-22 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Wed 2016-12-21 15:25:05, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 06:32:46PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > > > On Thu 2016-12-08 12:08:38, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > > Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency mode

Re: Build warning on 32-bit PPC - bisected to commit 989cea5c14be

2016-12-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/21/2016 08:02 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote: Hi Larry, This is strange you've bisected it there, I can't see how that patch would trigger it. That said, powerpc has had a few small build system glitches. It looks like this warning could be fixed by changing #elif CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE to #elif def

Re: [PATCH v3 13/15] livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model

2016-12-22 Thread Petr Mladek
On Wed 2016-12-21 15:25:05, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 06:32:46PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > > On Thu 2016-12-08 12:08:38, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency model. This is the > > > foundation which will eventually enable us to p

[PATCH] powerpc/64: quieten section mismatch warnings

2016-12-22 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Some of the boot code located at the start of kernel text is "init" class, in that it only runs at boot time, however marking it as normal init code is problematic because that puts it into a different section located at the very end of kernel text. E.g., in case the TOC is not set up, we may not

[PATCH] arch: powerpc: ppc4xx compile flag optimizations

2016-12-22 Thread John Crispin
From: Imre Kaloz This patch splits up the compile flags between ppc40x and ppc44x. Signed-off-by: John Crispin Signed-off-by: Imre Kaloz --- arch/powerpc/Makefile |3 ++- arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile |6 +++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/pow