[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "powerpc: On POWERNV enable PPC_DENORMALISATION by default" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc: On POWERNV enable PPC_DENORMALISATION by default

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c35b1ea48779c900bec508949018e970247e907b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:31:26 +1000
Subject: powerpc: On POWERNV enable PPC_DENORMALISATION by default

commit 4e90a2a7375e86827541bda9393414c03e7721c6 upstream.

We want PPC_DENORMALISATION enabled when POWERNV is enabled,
so update the Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index dabe429..74002f0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ config SCHED_SMT
 config PPC_DENORMALISATION
 	bool "PowerPC denormalisation exception handling"
 	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
-	default "n"
+	default "y" if PPC_POWERNV
 	---help---
 	  Add support for handling denormalisation of single precision
 	  values.  Useful for bare metal only.  If unsure say Y here.
--
1.8.1.2