2 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Denis Kirjanov	39fcfb911c	selftests/powerpc: Run EBB tests only on POWER8 ... 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>	2015-10-19 19:42:08 +11:00
Michael Ellerman	3752e453f6	selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBs ... 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>	2014-06-11 17:03:58 +10:00