[PATCH 32/37] KVM: PPC: booke: add GS documentation for program interrupt

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Sat Feb 25 01:26:26 EST 2012


The comment for program interrupts triggered when using bookehv was
misleading. Update it to mention why MSR_GS indicates that we have
to inject an interrupt into the guest again, not emulate it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
index 451ba16..7adef28 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
@@ -683,8 +683,14 @@ int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 	case BOOKE_INTERRUPT_PROGRAM:
 		if (vcpu->arch.shared->msr & (MSR_PR | MSR_GS)) {
-			/* Program traps generated by user-level software must be handled
-			 * by the guest kernel. */
+			/*
+			 * Program traps generated by user-level software must
+			 * be handled by the guest kernel.
+			 *
+			 * In GS mode, hypervisor privileged instructions trap
+			 * on BOOKE_INTERRUPT_HV_PRIV, not here, so these are
+			 * actual program interrupts, handled by the guest.
+			 */
 			kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, vcpu->arch.fault_esr);
 			r = RESUME_GUEST;
 			kvmppc_account_exit(vcpu, USR_PR_INST);
-- 
1.6.0.2



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