On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 07:23:00PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > When we're using PR KVM we must not allow the CPU to take interrupts > in virtual mode, as the SLB does not contain host kernel mappings > when running inside the guest context. > > To make sure we get good performance for non-KVM tasks but still > properly functioning PR KVM, let's just disable AIL whenever a vcpu > is scheduled in. > > This patch fixes running PR KVM on POWER8 bare metal for me.
We already handle this for the situation where we're running under a hypervisor with the calls to pSeries_disable_reloc_on_exc() and pSeries_enable_reloc_on_exc() in kvmppc_core_init_vm_pr() and kvmppc_core_destroy_vm_pr() respectively. The obvious approach to fixing this problem would be to generalize those calls, perhaps via a ppc_md callback, to work on the powernv platform too. If you don't want to do that, for instance because those calls are defined to operate across the whole machine rather than a single CPU thread, and you prefer to affect just the one thread we're running on, then I think you need to explain that in the commit message. Regards, Paul. -- 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
