BOOKE KVM calling load_up_fpu from C?
Bhushan Bharat-R65777
R65777 at freescale.com
Tue Feb 12 14:58:36 EST 2013
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Neuling [mailto:mikey at neuling.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:16 AM
> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Cc: Wood Scott-B07421; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: BOOKE KVM calling load_up_fpu from C?
>
> Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777 at freescale.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Linuxppc-dev [mailto:linuxppc-dev-
> > > bounces+bharat.bhushan=freescale.com at lists.ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of
> > > bounces+Michael
> > > Neuling
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 8:59 AM
> > > To: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > > Subject: BOOKE KVM calling load_up_fpu from C?
> > >
> > > Scott,
> > >
> > > I was looking at changing how load_up_fpu works and I found this in
> > > arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.h:
> > >
> > > static inline void kvmppc_load_guest_fp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU
> > > if (vcpu->fpu_active && !(current->thread.regs->msr & MSR_FP)) {
> > > load_up_fpu();
> > > current->thread.regs->msr |= MSR_FP;
> > > }
> > > #endif
> > > }
> > >
> > > I'm wondering how this is suppose to work since load_up_fpu is
> > > suppose to have MSR in R12?
> >
> > Is not the load_up_fpu() does mfmsr:
> >
> > _GLOBAL(load_up_fpu)
> > mfmsr r5
> > ori r5,r5,MSR_FP
> > #ifdef CONFIG_VSX
> > BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> > oris r5,r5,MSR_VSX at h
> > END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_VSX)
> > #endif
> > SYNC
> > MTMSRD(r5) /* enable use of fpu now */
> > isync
> > <snip>
>
> Look further down...
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
> mfspr r5,SPRN_SPRG_THREAD /* current task's THREAD (phys) */
> lwz r4,THREAD_FPEXC_MODE(r5)
> ori r9,r9,MSR_FP /* enable FP for current */
> or r9,r9,r4
> #else
> ld r4,PACACURRENT(r13)
> addi r5,r4,THREAD /* Get THREAD */
> lwz r4,THREAD_FPEXC_MODE(r5)
> ori r12,r12,MSR_FP
> or r12,r12,r4
> std r12,_MSR(r1)
> #endif
>
> R12 is loaded with SRR1 in the exception prolog before load_up_fpu is called.
Yes it is SRR1 not MSR.
Also on 32bit it looks like that R9 is assumed to have SRR1.
-Bharat
> It's the MSR of the user process, not the current MSR.
>
> Mikey
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