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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-11-23 21:55:29 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-04 09:17:02 -0800
commitb4f4372f96e0573d752d9e45beda02fabf716cc8 (patch)
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sparc64: Make %pil level 15 a pseudo-NMI.
So that we can profile code even in a local_irq_disable() section, only write 14 (instead of 15) into the %pil register to disable IRQs. This allows PIL level 15 to serve as a pseudo NMI. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c
index 04994fc8700d..4638af2f55a0 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ static void sun4v_log_error(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sun4v_error_entry *ent,
}
}
-/* We run with %pil set to 15 and PSTATE_IE enabled in %pstate.
+/* We run with %pil set to PIL_NORMAL_MAX and PSTATE_IE enabled in %pstate.
* Log the event and clear the first word of the entry.
*/
void sun4v_resum_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long offset)
@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ void sun4v_resum_overflow(struct pt_regs *regs)
atomic_inc(&sun4v_resum_oflow_cnt);
}
-/* We run with %pil set to 15 and PSTATE_IE enabled in %pstate.
+/* We run with %pil set to PIL_NORMAL_MAX and PSTATE_IE enabled in %pstate.
* Log the event, clear the first word of the entry, and die.
*/
void sun4v_nonresum_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long offset)