[PATCH] powerpc: Document how we set AIL on guest kernels
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jul 17 15:29:45 EST 2014
I spent ten minutes scratching my head, trying to work out where we
enabled relocation on interrupts for guest kernels. Expand the doco to
make it clear.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index ee082d771178..d600b3fe5f5c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -201,7 +201,11 @@ static void cpu_ready_for_interrupts(void)
/* Set IR and DR in PACA MSR */
get_paca()->kernel_msr = MSR_KERNEL;
- /* Enable AIL if supported */
+ /*
+ * Enable AIL if supported, and we are in hypervisor mode. If we are
+ * not in hypervisor mode, we enable relocation-on interrupts later
+ * in pSeries_setup_arch() using the H_SET_MODE hcall.
+ */
if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_HVMODE) &&
cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)) {
unsigned long lpcr = mfspr(SPRN_LPCR);
--
1.9.1
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