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Threshold feature when used with MMCRA [Threshold Event Counter Event],
MMCRA[Threshold Start event] and MMCRA[Threshold End event] will update
MMCRA[Threashold Event Counter Exponent] and MMCRA[Threshold Event
Counter Multiplier] with the corresponding threshold event count values.
Patch to export MMCRA[TECX/TECM] to userspace in 'weight' field of
struct perf_sample_data.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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The LDST field and DATA_SRC in SIER identifies the memory hierarchy level
(eg: L1, L2 etc), from which a data-cache miss for a marked instruction
was satisfied. Use the 'perf_mem_data_src' object to export this
hierarchy level to user space.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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SIER and SIAR are not updated correctly for some samples, so force the
use of MSR and regs->nip instead for misc_flag updates. This is done by
adding a new ppmu flag and updating the use_siar logic in
perf_read_regs() to use it, and dropping the PPMU_HAS_SIER flag.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Rename flag to PPMU_NO_SIAR, and also drop PPMU_HAS_SIER]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Power8 supports a large number of events in each susbystem so when a
user runs:
perf stat -e branch-instructions sleep 1
perf stat -e L1-dcache-loads sleep 1
it is not clear as to which PMU events were monitored.
Export the generic hardware and cache perf events for Power8 to sysfs,
so users can precisely determine the PMU event monitored by the generic
event.
Eg:
cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/branch-instructions
event=0x10068
$ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/L1-dcache-loads
event=0x100ee
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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We used the PME_ prefix earlier to avoid some macro/variable name
collisions. We have since changed the way we define/use the event
macros so we no longer need the prefix.
By dropping the prefix, we keep the the event macros consistent with
their official names.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <ellerman@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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To support per-event exclude settings on Power8 we need access to the
struct perf_events in compute_mmcr().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Instead of separate bits for every POWER8 PMU feature, have a single one
for v2.07 of the architecture.
This saves us adding a MMCR2 define for a future patch.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Currently the sysrq ShowRegs command does not print any PMU registers as
we have an empty definition for perf_event_print_debug(). This patch
defines perf_event_print_debug() to print various PMU registers.
Example output:
CPU: 0 PMU registers, ppmu = POWER7 n_counters = 6
PMC1: 00000000 PMC2: 00000000 PMC3: 00000000 PMC4: 00000000
PMC5: 00000000 PMC6: 00000000 PMC7: deadbeef PMC8: deadbeef
MMCR0: 0000000080000000 MMCR1: 0000000000000000 MMCRA: 0f00000001000000
SIAR: 0000000000000000 SDAR: 0000000000000000 SIER: 0000000000000000
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fix 32 bit build and rework formatting for compactness]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to sync up with the latest upstream fixes since -rc1.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Add missing 'finished_round' event forwarding in 'perf inject', from Adrian Hunter.
* Assorted tidy ups, from Adrian Hunter.
* Fall back to sysfs event names when parsing fails, from Andi Kleen.
* List pmu events in perf list, from Andi Kleen.
* Cleanup some memory allocation/freeing uses, from David Ahern.
* Add option to collapse undesired parts of call graph, from Greg Price.
* Prep work for multi perf data file storage, from Jiri Olsa.
* Add support for more than two files comparision in 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa
* A few more 'perf test' improvements, from Jiri Olsa
* libtraceevent cleanups, from Namhyung Kim.
* Remove odd build stall in 'perf sched' by moving a large struct initialization
from a local variable to a global one, from Namhyung Kim.
* Add support for callchains in the gtk UI, from Namhyung Kim.
* Do not apply symfs for an absolute vmlinux path, fix from Namhyung Kim.
* Use default include path notation for libtraceevent, from Robert Richter.
* Fix 'make tools/perf', from Robert Richter.
* Make Power7 events available, from Runzhen Wang.
* Add --objdump option to 'perf top', from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Power7 supports over 530 different perf events but only a small subset
of these can be specified by name, for the remaining events, we must
specify them by their raw code:
perf stat -e r2003c <application>
This patch makes all the POWER7 events available in sysfs. So we can
instead specify these as:
perf stat -e 'cpu/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU/' <application>
where PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU is the r2003c in previous example.
Before this patch is applied, the size of power7-pmu.o is:
$ size arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
text data bss dec hex filename
3073 2720 0 5793 16a1 arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
and after the patch is applied, it is:
$ size arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
text data bss dec hex filename
15950 31112 0 47062 b7d6 arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
For the run time overhead, I use two scripts, one is "event_name.sh",
which contains 50 event names, it looks like:
# ./perf record -e 'cpu/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU/' -e ..... /bin/sleep 1
the other one is named "event_code.sh" which use corresponding events
raw
code instead of events names, it looks like:
# ./perf record -e r2003c -e ...... /bin/sleep 1
below is the result.
Using events name:
[root@localhost perf]# time ./event_name.sh
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (~102 samples) ]
real 0m1.192s
user 0m0.028s
sys 0m0.106s
Using events raw code:
[root@localhost perf]# time ./event_code.sh
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.003 MB perf.data (~112 samples) ]
real 0m1.198s
user 0m0.028s
sys 0m0.105s
Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: icycoder@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhew@clemson.edu>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372407297-6996-3-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.
EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.
Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Provides basic enablement for perf branch stack sampling framework on
POWER8 processor based platforms. Adds new BHRB related elements into
cpu_hw_event structure to represent current BHRB config, BHRB filter
configuration, manage context and to hold output BHRB buffer during
PMU interrupt before passing to the user space. This also enables
processing of BHRB data and converts them into generic perf branch
stack data format.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch adds couple of generic functions to power_pmu structure
which would configure the BHRB and it's filters. It also adds
representation of the number of BHRB entries present on the PMU.
A new PMU flag PPMU_BHRB would indicate presence of BHRB feature.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On power8 we have a new SIER (Sampled Instruction Event Register), which
captures information about instructions when we have random sampling
enabled.
Add support for loading the SIER into pt_regs, overloading regs->dar.
Also set the new NO_SIPR flag in regs->result if we don't have SIPR.
Update regs_sihv/sipr() to look for SIPR/SIHV in SIER.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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In perf_ip_adjust() we potentially use the MMCRA[SLOT] field to adjust
the reported IP of a sampled instruction.
Currently the logic is written so that if the backend does NOT have
the PPMU_ALT_SIPR flag set then we assume MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
However on power8 we do not want to set ALT_SIPR (it's in a third
location), and we also do not have MMCRA[SLOT].
So add a new flag which only indicates whether MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
Naively we'd set it on everything except power6/7, because they set
ALT_SIPR, and we've reversed the polarity of the flag. But it's more
complicated than that.
mpc7450 is 32-bit, and uses its own version of perf_ip_adjust()
which doesn't use MMCRA[SLOT], so it doesn't need the new flag set and
the behaviour is unchanged.
PPC970 (and I assume power4) don't have MMCRA[SLOT], so shouldn't have
the new flag set. This is a behaviour change on those cpus, though we
were probably getting lucky and the bits in question were 0.
power5 and power5+ set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
power6 & power7 do not set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"So from the depth of frozen Minnesota, here's the powerpc pull request
for 3.9. It has a few interesting highlights, in addition to the
usual bunch of bug fixes, minor updates, embedded device tree updates
and new boards:
- Hand tuned asm implementation of SHA1 (by Paulus & Michael
Ellerman)
- Support for Doorbell interrupts on Power8 (kind of fast
thread-thread IPIs) by Ian Munsie
- Long overdue cleanup of the way we handle relocation of our open
firmware trampoline (prom_init.c) on 64-bit by Anton Blanchard
- Support for saving/restoring & context switching the PPR (Processor
Priority Register) on server processors that support it. This
allows the kernel to preserve thread priorities established by
userspace. By Haren Myneni.
- DAWR (new watchpoint facility) support on Power8 by Michael Neuling
- Ability to change the DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) which
controls cache prefetching on a running process via ptrace by
Alexey Kardashevskiy
- Support for context switching the TAR register on Power8 (new
branch target register meant to be used by some new specific
userspace perf event interrupt facility which is yet to be enabled)
by Ian Munsie.
- Improve preservation of the CFAR register (which captures the
origin of a branch) on various exception conditions by Paulus.
- Move the Bestcomm DMA driver from arch powerpc to drivers/dma where
it belongs by Philippe De Muyter
- Support for Transactional Memory on Power8 by Michael Neuling
(based on original work by Matt Evans). For those curious about
the feature, the patch contains a pretty good description."
(See commit db8ff907027b: "powerpc: Documentation for transactional
memory on powerpc" for the mentioned description added to the file
Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (140 commits)
powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
powerpc/85xx: l2sram - Add compatible string for BSC9131 platform
powerpc/85xx: bsc9131 - Correct typo in SDHC device node
powerpc/e500/qemu-e500: enable coreint
powerpc/mpic: allow coreint to be determined by MPIC version
powerpc/fsl_pci: Store the pci ctlr device ptr in the pci ctlr struct
powerpc/85xx: Board support for ppa8548
powerpc/fsl: remove extraneous DIU platform functions
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/p1022_ds.c: adjust duplicate test
powerpc: Documentation for transactional memory on powerpc
powerpc: Add transactional memory to pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
powerpc: Add config option for transactional memory
powerpc: Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features
powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context
powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code
powerpc: Routines for FP/VSX/VMX unavailable during a transaction
powerpc: Add transactional memory unavaliable execption handler
powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes
powerpc: Add FP/VSX and VMX register load functions for transactional memory
powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching
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Change the representation of the PMU flags from decimal to hex since they
are bitfields which are easier to read in hex.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Fix compile errors like those below:
CC arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
/home/git/linux/arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.c:397:2: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror]
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130205231938.GA24125@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Make some POWER7-specific perf events available in sysfs.
$ /bin/ls -1 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/
branch-instructions
branch-misses
cache-misses
cache-references
cpu-cycles
instructions
PM_BRU_FIN
PM_BRU_MPRED
PM_CMPLU_STALL
PM_CYC
PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC
PM_INST_CMPL
PM_LD_MISS_L1
PM_LD_REF_L1
stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
where the 'PM_*' events are POWER specific and the others are the
generic events.
This will enable users to specify these events with their symbolic
names rather than with their raw code.
perf stat -e 'cpu/PM_CYC' ...
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062528.GE13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Make the generic perf events in POWER7 available via sysfs.
$ ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events
branch-instructions
branch-misses
cache-misses
cache-references
cpu-cycles
instructions
stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
$ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/cache-misses
event=0x400f0
This patch is based on commits that implement this functionality on x86.
Eg:
commit a47473939db20e3961b200eb00acf5fcf084d755
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Oct 10 14:53:11 2012 +0200
perf/x86: Make hardware event translations available in sysfs
Changelog:[v2]
[Jiri Osla] Drop EVENT_ID() macro since it is only used once.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062454.GD13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+
On POWER7+ two new bits (mmcra[35] and mmcra[36]) indicate whether the
contents of SIAR and SDAR are valid.
For marked instructions on P7+, we must save the contents of SIAR and
SDAR registers only if these new bits are set.
This code/check for the SIAR-Valid bit is specific to P7+, so rather than
waste a CPU-feature bit use the PVR flag.
Note that Carl Love proposed a similar change for oprofile:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/309
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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970 and Power4 don't support "continuous sampling" which means that
when we aren't in marked instruction sampling mode (marked events),
SIAR isn't updated with the last instruction sampled before the
perf interrupt. On those processors, we must thus use the exception
SRR0 value as the sampled instruction pointer.
Those processors also don't support the SIPR and SIHV bits in MMCRA
which means we need some kind of heuristic to decide if SIAR values
represent kernel or user addresses.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Put the logic to compute the event index into a per pmu method. This
is required because the x86 rules are weird and wonderful and don't
match the capabilities of the current scheme.
AFAIK only powerpc actually has a usable userspace read of the PMCs
but I'm not at all sure anybody actually used that.
ARM is restored to the default since it currently does not support
userspace access at all. And all software events are provided with a
method that reports their index as 0 (disabled).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dfydxodki16lylkt3gl2j7cw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This implements perf_event support for the Freescale embedded performance
monitor, based on the existing perf_event.c that supports server/classic
chips.
Some limitations:
- Performance monitor interrupts are regular EE interrupts, and thus you
can't profile places with interrupts disabled. We may want to implement
soft IRQ-disabling, with perfmon interrupts exempted and treated as NMIs.
- When trying to schedule multiple event groups at once, and using
restricted events, situations could arise where scheduling fails even
though it would be possible. Consider three groups, each with two events.
One group has restricted events, the others don't. The two non-restricted
groups are scheduled, then one is removed, which happens to occupy the two
counters that can't do restricted events. The remaining non-restricted
group will not be moved to the non-restricted-capable counters to make
room if the restricted group tries to be scheduled.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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