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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] POWERPC: BOOK3S: KVM: Use the saved dar value and generic make_dsisr
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 00:04:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399334656.20388.69.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx949u9d.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 19:56 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> Paul mentioned that BOOK3S always had DAR value set on alignment
> interrupt. And the patch is to enable/collect correct DAR value when
> running with Little Endian PR guest. Now to limit the impact and to
> enable Little Endian PR guest, I ended up doing the conditional code
> only for book3s 64 for which we know for sure that we set DAR value.

Only BookS ? Afaik, the kernel align.c unconditionally uses DAR on
every processor type. It's DSISR that may or may not be populated
but afaik DAR always is.

Cheers,
Ben.



WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] POWERPC: BOOK3S: KVM: Use the saved dar value and generic make_dsisr
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 10:04:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399334656.20388.69.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx949u9d.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 19:56 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> Paul mentioned that BOOK3S always had DAR value set on alignment
> interrupt. And the patch is to enable/collect correct DAR value when
> running with Little Endian PR guest. Now to limit the impact and to
> enable Little Endian PR guest, I ended up doing the conditional code
> only for book3s 64 for which we know for sure that we set DAR value.

Only BookS ? Afaik, the kernel align.c unconditionally uses DAR on
every processor type. It's DSISR that may or may not be populated
but afaik DAR always is.

Cheers,
Ben.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] POWERPC: BOOK3S: KVM: Use the saved dar value and generic make_dsisr
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 10:04:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399334656.20388.69.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx949u9d.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 19:56 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> Paul mentioned that BOOK3S always had DAR value set on alignment
> interrupt. And the patch is to enable/collect correct DAR value when
> running with Little Endian PR guest. Now to limit the impact and to
> enable Little Endian PR guest, I ended up doing the conditional code
> only for book3s 64 for which we know for sure that we set DAR value.

Only BookS ? Afaik, the kernel align.c unconditionally uses DAR on
every processor type. It's DSISR that may or may not be populated
but afaik DAR always is.

Cheers,
Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-04 17:21 [PATCH V4] POWERPC: BOOK3S: KVM: Use the saved dar value and generic make_dsisr Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-04 17:33 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-04 17:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 11:19 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 11:19   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 11:19   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:26   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:38     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:26     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:43     ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:43       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:43       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:50       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:51         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:50         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 15:10         ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 15:10           ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 15:10           ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:54       ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 14:54         ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 15:03         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 15:15           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 15:03           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 15:06           ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 15:06             ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 15:06             ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 14:57       ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 14:57         ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 14:57         ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-05 15:09         ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 15:09           ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 15:09           ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 21:23         ` Christian Zigotzky
2014-05-05 21:23           ` Christian Zigotzky
2014-05-05 21:23           ` Christian Zigotzky
2014-05-06  0:07       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-06  0:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-06  0:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-06  0:04     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-05-06  0:04       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-06  0:04       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-06  0:41   ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-06  0:41     ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-06  0:41     ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-06  6:57     ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-06  6:57       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-06  6:57       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-06 14:06       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-06 14:18         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-06 14:06         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-06 14:12       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-06 14:24         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-06 14:12         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-06 14:21         ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-06 14:21           ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-06 14:21           ` Alexander Graf

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