Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers

2014-05-20 Thread Alexander Graf
On 20.05.2014, at 11:59, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:09:07PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 17.05.14 08:20, Paul Mackerras wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:17:42PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: POWER8 introduces transactional memory which brings along a nu

Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers

2014-05-20 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:09:07PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 17.05.14 08:20, Paul Mackerras wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:17:42PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>POWER8 introduces transactional memory which brings along a number of new > >>registers and MSR bits. > >> > >>Impleme

Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers

2014-05-19 Thread Alexander Graf
On 17.05.14 08:20, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:17:42PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: POWER8 introduces transactional memory which brings along a number of new registers and MSR bits. Implementing all of those is a pretty big headache, so for now let's at least emulate enoug

Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers

2014-05-16 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:17:42PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > POWER8 introduces transactional memory which brings along a number of new > registers and MSR bits. > > Implementing all of those is a pretty big headache, so for now let's at least > emulate enough to make Linux's context switching

[PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers

2014-04-29 Thread Alexander Graf
POWER8 introduces transactional memory which brings along a number of new registers and MSR bits. Implementing all of those is a pretty big headache, so for now let's at least emulate enough to make Linux's context switching code happy. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_