[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v4 04/10] TAAv4 4

Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:38:59 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, speck for Greg KH wrote:

> > FWIW there are other processors that support transactional memory (e.g 
> > powerpc), but it's not called TSX; that's Intel specific.
> 
> What does powerpc call it, 

Hardware Trasnactional Memory (HTM).

> and do they export the "turn it on or off" attribute anywhere?

I think you can only do that using 'ppc_tm' kernel cmdline parameter 
during boot.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs