Re: [PATCH 0/4] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stopped by host

2011-09-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:49:55PM -0400, Eric B Munson wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:27:49PM -0600, emun...@mgebm.net wrote: > > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:24:12 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > >On 08/30/2011 07:26 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrot

Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: PPC: Paravirtualize SPRG4-7, ESR, PIR, MASn

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Wood
On 09/05/2011 05:28 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> +/* >> + * SPRG4-7 are user-readable, so we can't keep these >> + * consistent between the magic page and the real >> + * registers. We provide space in case the guest >> + * can deal with this. >> + * >> + * This also ap

Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: PPC: booke: Improve timer register emulation

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Wood
On 09/08/2011 10:39 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 08.09.2011, at 17:34, Scott Wood wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:41:35PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> Yes, but why can't we do this in the vcpu thread's context so we only >>> ever have a single instance accessing the vcpu struct? I

RE: synergy between IBM A2 and Freescale e500mc

2011-09-15 Thread Yoder Stuart-B08248
> -Original Message- > From: kvm-ppc-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ppc-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On > Behalf Of Kun > Wang > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:43 AM > To: Yoder Stuart-B08248; ag...@suse.de; ji...@pobox.com; > kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org > Subject: synergy between IBM A2

Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: PPC: e500: eliminate a trap when entering idle

2011-09-15 Thread Scott Wood
On 09/05/2011 05:30 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 27.08.2011, at 01:31, Scott Wood wrote: > >> +#ifdef CONFIG_E500 >> +/* >> + * Skip the overhead of HID0 accesses that KVM ignores -- >> + * just write MSR[WE]. >> + * >> + * We don't need _TLF_NAPPING, because under KVM we