[PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3E: Enable e6500 core

Mihai Caraman mihai.caraman at freescale.com
Wed Jul 3 22:42:39 EST 2013


Now that AltiVec support is in place enable e6500 core.

Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman at freescale.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
index 09da1ac..bec897c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
@@ -175,6 +175,16 @@ int kvmppc_core_check_processor_compat(void)
 		r = 0;
 	else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e5500") == 0)
 		r = 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
+	/*
+	 * Since guests have the priviledge to enable AltiVec, we need AltiVec
+	 * support in the host to save/restore their context.
+	 * Don't use CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC to identify cores with AltiVec unit
+	 * because it's cleared in the absence of CONFIG_ALTIVEC!
+	 */
+	else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e6500") == 0)
+		r = 0;
+#endif
 	else
 		r = -ENOTSUPP;
 
-- 
1.7.3.4




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