[PATCH 11/11] KVM: PPC: reconstruct LOAD_VSX/STORE_VSX instruction mmio emulation with analyse_intr() input

Simon Guo wei.guo.simon at gmail.com
Thu May 3 19:46:41 AEST 2018


On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:26:12PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 07:54:44PM +0800, wei.guo.simon at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon at gmail.com>
> > 
> > This patch reconstructs LOAD_VSX/STORE_VSX instruction MMIO emulation with
> > analyse_intr() input. It utilizes VSX_FPCONV/VSX_SPLAT/SIGNEXT exported
> > by analyse_instr() and handle accordingly.
> > 
> > When emulating VSX store, the VSX reg will need to be flushed so that
> > the right reg val can be retrieved before writing to IO MEM.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon at gmail.com>
> 
> Looks good, except that you shouldn't need the special case for
> stxsiwx.  With size=4 and element_size=8, kvmppc_handle_vsx_store
> should just do the right thing, as far as I can see.
Yes. Let me test after update.

Thanks,
- Simon


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