Re: [PATCH 09/13] powerpc/book3e: Add generic 64-bit idle powersave support

2010-07-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 16:16 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > We use a similar technique to ppc32: We set a thread local flag > to indicate that we are about to enter or have entered the stop > state, and have fixup code in the async interrupt entry code that > reacts to this flag to make us r

[PATCH 09/13] powerpc/book3e: Add generic 64-bit idle powersave support

2010-07-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
We use a similar technique to ppc32: We set a thread local flag to indicate that we are about to enter or have entered the stop state, and have fixup code in the async interrupt entry code that reacts to this flag to make us return to a different location (sets NIP to LINK in our case). Signed-off