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Documentation: powerpc: Expand the DAWR acronym

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Those not of us not drowning in POWER might not know what this means.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Joel Stanley 2019-04-01 16:41:56 +10:30 committed by Michael Ellerman
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DAWR issues on POWER9
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On POWER9 the DAWR can cause a checkstop if it points to cache
inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to disinguish CI
memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is disabled by
this commit:
On POWER9 the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can cause a checkstop
if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to
disinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is
disabled by this commit:
commit 9654153158d3e0684a1bdb76dbababdb7111d5a0
Author: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>