[PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Cleanup kvmppc_load/save_fp
Michael Neuling
mikey at neuling.org
Tue Aug 19 15:36:47 EST 2014
On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 15:24 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 02:59:29PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > This cleans up kvmppc_load/save_fp. It removes unnecessary isyncs.
>
> NAK - they are necessary on PPC970, which we (still) support. You
> could put them in a feature section if they are really annoying you.
I'm not fussed, but we should at least have a comment there for why we
need them.
> > It also
> > removes the unnecessary resetting of the MSR bits on exit of kvmppc_save_fp.
>
> ... except it doesn't. :) That got folded into e4e38121507a ("KVM:
> PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory support").
Arrh, thanks. This patch was cleaning up stuff from an old local tree
and couldn't see where it had been upstreamed. I missed this.
Mikey
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