[PATCH V4] POWERPC: BOOK3S: KVM: Use the saved dar value and generic make_dsisr

[Olof Johansson]

2014-05-05 7:43 GMT-07:00 Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>:

> On 05/05/2014 04:26 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
>> Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> writes:
>>
>>  On 05/04/2014 07:21 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>>
>>>> Although it's optional IBM POWER cpus always had DAR value set on
>>>> alignment interrupt. So don't try to compute these values.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes from V3:
>>>> * Use make_dsisr instead of checking feature flag to decide whether to
>>>> use
>>>>     saved dsisr or not
>>>>
>>>>  ....
>>
>>     ulong kvmppc_alignment_dar(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int inst)
>>>>    {
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
>>>> +       return vcpu->arch.fault_dar;
>>>>
>>> How about PA6T and G5s?
>>>
>>>
>>>  Paul mentioned that BOOK3S always had DAR value set on alignment
>> interrupt. And the patch is to enable/collect correct DAR value when
>> running with Little Endian PR guest. Now to limit the impact and to
>> enable Little Endian PR guest, I ended up doing the conditional code
>> only for book3s 64 for which we know for sure that we set DAR value.
>>
>
> Yes, and I'm asking whether we know that this statement holds true for
> PA6T and G5 chips which I wouldn't consider IBM POWER. Since the G5 is at
> least developed by IBM, I'd assume its semantics here are similar to
> POWER4, but for PA6T I wouldn't be so sure.
>
>
Thanks for looking out for us, obviously IBM doesn't (based on the reply a
minute ago).

In the end, since there's been no work to enable KVM on PA6T, I'm not too
worried. I guess it's one more thing to sort out (and check for) whenever
someone does that.

I definitely don't have cycles to deal with that myself at this time. I can
help find hardware for someone who wants to, but even then I'm guessing the
interest is pretty limited.


-Olof
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