The secondary threads in the core are kept offline before launching guests in kvm on powerpc: "371fefd6f2dc4666:KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes."
Hence their runlatch bits are cleared. When the secondary threads are called in to start a guest, their runlatch bits need to be set to indicate that they are busy. The primary thread has its runlatch bit set though, but there is no harm in setting this bit once again. Hence set the runlatch bit for all threads before they start guest. Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <pre...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S index ffbb871..b254075 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S @@ -242,6 +242,12 @@ kvm_novcpu_exit: */ .globl kvm_start_guest kvm_start_guest: + + /* Set runlatch bit the minute you wake up from nap */ + mfspr r1, SPRN_CTRLF + ori r1, r1, 1 + mtspr SPRN_CTRLT, r1 + ld r2,PACATOC(r13) li r0,KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KVM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/