powerpc: Define differences between doorbells on book3e and book3s
authorIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:49:44 +0000 (18:49 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:09:05 +0000 (15:09 +1100)
There are a few key differences between doorbells on server compared
with embedded that we care about on Linux, namely:

- We have a new msgsndp instruction for directed privileged doorbells.
  msgsnd is used for directed hypervisor doorbells.
- The tag we use in the instruction is the Thread Identification
  Register of the recipient thread (since server doorbells can only
  occur between threads within a single core), and is only 7 bits wide.
- A new message type is introduced for server doorbells (none of the
  existing book3e message types are currently supported on book3s).

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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