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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2015-10-19	selftests/powerpc: Run EBB tests only on POWER8	Denis Kirjanov	1	-0/+2
	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>
2014-06-11	selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBs	Michael Ellerman	1	-0/+58
	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>