powerpc: Enable PPR save/restore

[PATCH 2/6] powerpc: Enable PPR save/restore

SMT thread status register (PPR) is used to set thread priority. This patch
enables PPR save/restore feature (CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR) on POWER7 and POWER8 systems.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Haren Myneni 2012-12-06 21:47:42 +00:00 • committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
commit d261386852