Re: [PATCH] PPC: fix LOGMPP instruction opcode and inline asm
From: Stewart Smith <hidden>
Date: 2015-10-16 03:53:51
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From: Stewart Smith <hidden>
Date: 2015-10-16 03:53:51
Also in:
stable
Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] writes:
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 12:20 +1100, Stewart Smith wrote:quoted
Back in 9678cda when we started using the Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in POWER8 for KVM, there were two mistakes introduced from the original patch used for investigation and microbenchmarks. One mistake was that the opcode was constructed incorrectly, putting the register in the wrong field in the opcode, meaning that we were asking the chip to read the memory address from some other register than what we intended - probably r0.Where is the logmpp instruction documented?
BookIV Section 5.1 - although I think this is now meant to all be in the "P8 User Manual".