[PATCH kernel] KVM: PPC: Book3s: Remove real mode interrupt controller hcalls handlers

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue May 24 20:51:53 AEST 2022


On Mon, 9 May 2022 17:11:50 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Currently we have 2 sets of interrupt controller hypercalls handlers
> for real and virtual modes, this is from POWER8 times when switching
> MMU on was considered an expensive operation.
> 
> POWER9 however does not have dependent threads and MMU is enabled for
> handling hcalls so the XIVE native or XICS-on-XIVE real mode handlers
> never execute on real P9 and later CPUs.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm.

[1/1] KVM: PPC: Book3s: Remove real mode interrupt controller hcalls handlers
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b22af9041927075b82bcaf4b6c7a354688198d47

cheers


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