[PATCH v2 1/1] KVM: PPC: Introduce KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jul 20 15:46:30 AEST 2016


Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com> writes:

> Introduce a new KVM capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM, that can be queried to
> determine if a PowerPC KVM guest should use HTM (Hardware Transactional

Minor nit, "should" should be "can" IMHO.

> Memory).
>
> This will be used by QEMU to populate the pa-features bits in the
> guest's device tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> v2:
>
> * Use CPU_FTR_TM_COMP instead of CPU_FTR_TM.

Thanks.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>

Or do you want me to merge this before Paul gets back?

> * I didn't unbreak the line, as with the extra characters checkpatch will
>   complain if I do. I did move the break to a more usual place.

I would just ignore checkpatch. But I don't mind that much.

cheers


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