On 31.03.2011, at 05:21, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: kvm-ppc-ow...@vger.kernel.org >> [mailto:kvm-ppc-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Scott Wood >> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:35 AM >> To: ag...@suse.de >> Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: [PATCH v5 4/4] KVM: PPC: e500: Save/restore SPE state >> >> This is done lazily. The SPE save will be done only if the guest has >> used SPE since the last preemption or heavyweight exit. >> Restore will be >> done only on demand, when enabling MSR_SPE in the shadow MSR, >> in response >> to an SPE fault or mtmsr emulation. >> >> For SPEFSCR, Linux already switches it on context switch >> (non-lazily), so >> the only remaining bit is to save it between qemu and the guest. >> >> Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu....@freescale.com> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> >> --- >> v5: disable preemption when restoring SPE state >> >> Saving SPE state is only done from a preempt notifier or vcpu_put(), >> where preemption is already disabled. >> >> The other patches in this series are the same as v4. >> >> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 +++ >> arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_booke.h | 1 + >> arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 6 +++ >> arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c | 72 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- >> arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.h | 18 ++------- >> arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ >> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c | 19 ++++++++- >> 7 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) >> > > I think the patch miss the bit to handle the case that > if guest clear the MSR_SPE.
Right. On set_msr the shadow_msr should get MSR_SPE removed. Thanks for the catch! Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
