[RFC PATCH 2/6] KVM: PPC: Book3E: Refactor SPE_FP exit handling

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jun 6 05:07:34 EST 2013


On 06/05/2013 02:29:47 AM, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
> > >  	case BOOKE_INTERRUPT_SPE_FP_ROUND:
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPE
> > >  		kvmppc_booke_queue_irqprio(vcpu,
> > > BOOKE_IRQPRIO_SPE_FP_ROUND);
> > >  		r = RESUME_GUEST;
> > >  		break;
> >
> > Why not use kvmppc_supports_spe() here, for consistency?
> 
> I added cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_SPE) for the case specified above,  
> but here
> SPE_FP_ROUND is not shared with ALTIVEC. CONFIG_SPE is used in other  
> places
> in KVM without this check, shouldn't be all or nothing?

I'd rather it be consistent, at least between handling one exception  
and another.

-Scott


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