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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	'Breno Leitao' <leitao@debian.org>,
	 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: "stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	"cyrilbur@gmail.com" <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/tm: Add commandline option to disable hardware transactional memory
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:00:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508547615.23934.6.camel@neuling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DD009D7D7@AcuExch.aculab.com>

On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 12:58 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > > This patch adds a simple commandline option so that HTM can be
> > > disabled at boot time.
>=20
> ISTM that being able to disable it after boot would be more useful.
> (ie in a startup script)

I agree bug unfortunately that's impossible.

If a process is already running in tm suspend, there is no way to stop it o=
ther
than killing the process.  At that point you may as well kexec with a new
cmdline option

Mikey

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-21  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-12 10:17 [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/tm: Add commandline option to disable hardware transactional memory Michael Ellerman
2017-10-12 10:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Add PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND Michael Ellerman
2017-10-12 10:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/powernv: Enable TM without suspend if possible Michael Ellerman
2017-10-19 10:07   ` Florian Weimer
2017-10-19 12:04     ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2017-10-19 12:45       ` Florian Weimer
2017-10-19 13:34     ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2017-10-19 15:13       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-10-22  9:59         ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-20  2:47       ` Michael Neuling
2017-10-22  9:48       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-22  9:54     ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-12 10:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/tm: P9 disable transactionally suspended sigcontexts Michael Ellerman
2017-10-12 11:58 ` [PATCH 5/4] KVM: PPC: Tie KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM to the user-visible TM feature Michael Ellerman
2017-10-24  8:08   ` [5/4] " Michael Ellerman
2017-10-20 11:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/tm: Add commandline option to disable hardware transactional memory Breno Leitao
2017-10-20 12:58   ` David Laight
2017-10-21  1:00     ` Michael Neuling [this message]
2017-10-23  9:01       ` David Laight
2017-10-23  9:15         ` Michael Neuling
2017-10-21  0:58   ` Michael Neuling
2017-10-23 12:56     ` Breno Leitao
2017-10-24  8:12       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-24  8:08 ` [1/4] " Michael Ellerman

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