[PATCH] spufs-prevent-sdr1-access

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Jan 26 06:42:30 EST 2006


On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:25:58AM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> spufs-prevent-sdr1-access.patch:
> 
> SDR1 is a hypervisor resource.  It is not accessible when
> kernel is on LPAR.

I apologize if this is a stupid question since I don't know all the
spufs and cell details...

Don't you still need to set that SPU side register, or does the
hypervisor do it?  What stops a partition from setting it itself
and override whatever hypervisor setting there is, thus breaking the
partition isolation, etc?


-Olof



More information about the Linuxppc64-dev mailing list