[PATCH -V5 12/25] powerpc: Return all the valid pte ecndoing in KVM_PPC_GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Thu Apr 11 15:57:19 EST 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:41:57AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:27:50AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > Surely this can't be correct until the KVM H_ENTER implementation is
> > updated to cope with the MPSS page sizes.
> 
> Why ? We are returning info regarding penc values for different
> combination. I would guess qemu to only use info related to base page
> size. Rest it can ignore right ?. Obviously i haven't tested this
> part. So let me know if I should drop this ?

The guest can't actually use those encodings unless the host's H_ENTER
allows it to, though, so this patch should be moved after extended
that KVM support.

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