linux/arch/powerpc
Nathan Lynch 0f47331475 powerpc: Add PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT
Background from Maynard Johnson:
As of POWER6, a set of 32 common events is defined that must be
supported on all future POWER processors.  The main impetus for this
compat set is the need to support partition migration, especially from
processor P(n) to processor P(n+1), where performance software that's
running in the new partition may not be knowledgeable about processor
P(n+1).  If a performance tool determines it does not support the
physical processor, but is told (via the
PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT bit) that the processor supports
the notion of the PMU compat set, then the performance tool can
surface just those events to the user of the tool.

PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT indicates that the PMU supports at
least this basic subset of events which is compatible across POWER
processor lines.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-15 12:24:57 +10:00
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boot Merge commit 'gcl/gcl-next' 2008-07-15 11:55:27 +10:00
configs powerpc: Add driver for Barrier Synchronization Register 2008-07-15 12:24:55 +10:00
kernel powerpc: Add PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT 2008-07-15 12:24:57 +10:00
kvm KVM: ppc: Report bad GFNs 2008-06-06 21:22:41 +03:00
lib powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime 2008-07-03 16:58:10 +10:00
math-emu powerpc: Add macros to access floating point registers in thread_struct. 2008-07-01 11:28:43 +10:00
mm powerpc: Fix problems with 32bit PPC's running with >= 4GB of RAM 2008-07-09 14:13:01 -04:00
oprofile Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-04-14 21:11:02 +10:00
platforms Merge commit 'gcl/gcl-next' 2008-07-15 11:55:27 +10:00
sysdev Merge commit 'gcl/gcl-next' 2008-07-15 11:55:27 +10:00
xmon Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-06-30 10:16:50 +10:00
.gitignore [POWERPC] Add files build to .gitignore 2006-12-04 20:41:29 +11:00
Kconfig Merge commit 'jwb/jwb-next' 2008-07-15 11:54:57 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Add self-tests of the feature fixup code 2008-07-01 11:28:30 +10:00
Makefile powerpc/bootwrapper: Add documentation of boot wrapper targets 2008-07-04 00:59:03 -06:00