[PATCH] kvm/ppc/booke64: Hard disable interrupts when entering the guest
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat May 4 09:53:47 EST 2013
On 05/03/2013 06:45:23 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> While we could just set PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS after an exit to compensate,
> instead hard-disable interrupts before entering the guest. This way,
> we won't have to worry about interactions if we take an interrupt
> during the guest entry code. While I don't see any obvious
> interactions, it could change in the future (e.g. it would be bad if
> the non-hv code were used on 64-bit or if 32-bit guest lazy interrupt
> disabling, since the non-hv code changes IVPR among other things).
s/32-bit guest lazy/32-bit gets lazy/
-Scott
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