[PATCH 1/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Always save guest pmu for guest capable of nesting
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jul 15 12:23:55 AEST 2019
Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 13:47 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com> writes:
...
>> >
>> > Fixes: 95a6432ce903 "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamlined guest
>> > entry/exit path on P9 for radix guests"
>>
>> I'm not clear why this and the next commit are marked as fixing the
>> above commit. Wasn't it broken prior to that commit as well?
>
> That was the commit which introduced the entry path which we use for a
> nested guest, the path on which we need to be saving and restoring the
> pmu registers and so where the new code was introduced.
OK, I thought that commit was an unrelated optimisation. Agree that is a
good target if it is the commit that introduced the nested path.
cheers
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