linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2014-06-11	selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBs	Michael Ellerman	1	-0/+26
	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>
2013-08-14	selftests: Add test of PMU instruction counting on powerpc	Michael Ellerman	1	-0/+105
	This commit adds a test of instruction counting using the PMU on powerpc. Although the bulk of the code is architecture agnostic, the code needs to run a precisely sized loop which is implemented in assembler. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>