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authorThomas Waldecker <thomas.waldecker@gmail.com>2012-12-27 05:07:27 +0100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-01-10 07:01:50 +0100
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Documentation/powerpc: Fix path to the powerpc directory
ppc -> powerpc Signed-off-by: Thomas Waldecker <thomas.waldecker@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ split instruction and data caches, and if the CPU supports the DOZE and NAP
sleep modes.
Detection of the feature set is simple. A list of processors can be found in
-arch/ppc/kernel/cputable.c. The PVR register is masked and compared with each
-value in the list. If a match is found, the cpu_features of cur_cpu_spec is
-assigned to the feature bitmask for this processor and a __setup_cpu function
-is called.
+arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c. The PVR register is masked and compared with
+each value in the list. If a match is found, the cpu_features of cur_cpu_spec
+is assigned to the feature bitmask for this processor and a __setup_cpu
+function is called.
C code may test 'cur_cpu_spec[smp_processor_id()]->cpu_features' for a
particular feature bit. This is done in quite a few places, for example
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ should be used in the majority of cases.
The END_FTR_SECTION macros are implemented by storing information about this
code in the '__ftr_fixup' ELF section. When do_cpu_ftr_fixups
-(arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S) is invoked, it will iterate over the records in
+(arch/powerpc/kernel/misc.S) is invoked, it will iterate over the records in
__ftr_fixup, and if the required feature is not present it will loop writing
nop's from each BEGIN_FTR_SECTION to END_FTR_SECTION.