| Message ID | 1441704279.7601.6.camel@ellerman.id.au (mailing list archive) |
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| State | Deferred |
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On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:24:39PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 10:39 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 10:29:12PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > > > > > Why is this selected by KVM on PPC if KVM on PPC doesn't use it? What is the > > > user you're trying to enable? > > > > I copied Paul and Gautham to get their thoughts on whether it is > > something they could use on Power. At this time, apart from enabling the > > feature, I do not have a specific usecase for it. We can park this patch > > pending a real user on powerpc. > > OK, thanks for hashing that out guys. I think parking it is the best solution > for now, we could merge it and disable it somehow, but that would be ugly and > prone to breaking. > > Do we want to do something like this? Yes. This looks fine -- folks who want it down the line know where to look. Thanks, Ananth > > cheers > > diff --git a/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt > index d22a1095e661..3e2cf6161cf4 100644 > --- a/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt > +++ b/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt > @@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ The meaning of entries in the tables is: > | ok | # feature supported by the architecture > |TODO| # feature not yet supported by the architecture > | .. | # feature cannot be supported by the hardware > + |n/a | # feature is not needed/wanted/meaningful for the architecture > > diff --git a/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt > index 44cc1ff3f603..669813180dc5 100644 > --- a/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt > +++ b/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ > | nios2: | TODO | > | openrisc: | TODO | > | parisc: | TODO | > - | powerpc: | TODO | > + | powerpc: | n/a | # http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150825054110.GD3815@in.ibm.com > | s390: | TODO | > | score: | TODO | > | sh: | TODO | > >
diff --git a/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt index d22a1095e661..3e2cf6161cf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/arch-support.txt @@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ The meaning of entries in the tables is: | ok | # feature supported by the architecture |TODO| # feature not yet supported by the architecture | .. | # feature cannot be supported by the hardware + |n/a | # feature is not needed/wanted/meaningful for the architecture diff --git a/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt index 44cc1ff3f603..669813180dc5 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | - | powerpc: | TODO | + | powerpc: | n/a | # http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150825054110.GD3815@in.ibm.com | s390: | TODO | | score: | TODO | | sh: | TODO |