Re: [PATCH 2/2] powernv/powerpc: Clear PECE1 in LPCR via stop-api only on Hotplug
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Jul 25 2017 - 06:47:04 EST
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
...
> I wonder if we should think about a more structured kernel API for
> modifying these kind of system registers so we always have the
> up-to-date values stored in memory. Many of them do need to be
> restored after sleep, but they don't need to be saved per-thread
> or saved every time we go to sleep.
Yes that's on my mental TODO. Paul and I have talked about it in the
past for KVM.
I'll write it down sometime so we at least remember :D
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