Currently there is a reg.h in pmu/ebb that has defines that are useful
in other powerpc selftests so move this up into selftests/powerpc
folder. Also include in utils.h - as this is often used in self tests.
Add in some other useful register defines.
Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
EBB (Event Based Branches) are currently only available on POWER8, so we
should skip them on other CPUs.
I've found that at least one test loops forever on 970MP (cycles_with_freeze_test).
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
[mpe: Minor change log editing, add skip to cpu_event_vs_ebb_test]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
There is at least one bug in core_busy_loop(), we use r0, but it's
not in the clobber list. We were getting away with this it seems but
that was luck.
It's also fishy to be touching the stack, even if we do it below the
stack pointer. It seems we get away with it, but looking at the
generated code that may just be luck.
So move it into assembler, do all the stack handling by hand. We create
a stack frame to save the non-volatiles in, so we can muck around with
them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Power8 Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) has a new feature called Event
Based Branches (EBB). This commit adds tests of the kernel API for using
EBBs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Rashmica Gupta