On 31.01.2014, at 11:38, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> writes: > >> On 01/28/2014 05:44 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >>> We definitely don't need to emulate mtspr, because both the registers >>> are hypervisor resource. >> >> This patch description doesn't cover what the patch actually does. It >> changes the implementation from "always tell the guest it uses 100%" to >> "give the guest an accurate amount of cpu time spent inside guest >> context". > > Will fix that > >> >> Also, I think we either go with full hyp semantics which means we also >> emulate the offset or we go with no hyp awareness in the guest at all >> which means we also don't emulate SPURR which is a hyp privileged >> register. > > Can you clarify this ? In the 2.06 ISA SPURR is hypervisor privileged. That changed for 2.07 where it became supervisor privileged. So I suppose your patch is ok. When reviewing those patches I only had 2.06 around because power.org was broken. Alex _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
