[PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Book3E: Add LRAT error exception handler

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jul 4 07:52:53 EST 2013


On 07/03/2013 04:42:40 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 03.07.2013, at 22:16, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> > On 07/03/2013 11:56:06 AM, Mihai Caraman wrote:
> >> With LRAT (Logical to Real Address Translation) error exception  
> handler in kernel
> >> KVM needs to add the counterpart otherwise will break the build.
> >> Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman at freescale.com>
> >> ---
> >> arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S |    2 ++
> >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > Please combine these two patches to avoid breaking bisectability.
> 
> Why does the split break bisectability?

Same reason as the altivec build breakage from earlier.  If we add a  
new exception type but not a KVM handler for it, the kernel won't link.

-Scott


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