From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ignore PMU SPRs
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:12:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140430221259.GD9671@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398788262-3307-2-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:17:37PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When we expose a POWER8 CPU into the guest, it will start accessing PMU SPRs
> that we don't emulate. Just ignore accesses to them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch is OK as it stands, but in fact the architecture says that
kernel accesses to unimplemented SPRs are mostly supposed to be no-ops
rather than causing a trap (mostly = excluding mtspr to 0 or mfspr
from 0, 4, 5 or 6). I have a patch to implement that, which I'll
post.
Paul.
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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ignore PMU SPRs
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:12:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140430221259.GD9671@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398788262-3307-2-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:17:37PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When we expose a POWER8 CPU into the guest, it will start accessing PMU SPRs
> that we don't emulate. Just ignore accesses to them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This patch is OK as it stands, but in fact the architecture says that
kernel accesses to unimplemented SPRs are mostly supposed to be no-ops
rather than causing a trap (mostly == excluding mtspr to 0 or mfspr
from 0, 4, 5 or 6). I have a patch to implement that, which I'll
post.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-30 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-29 16:17 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Add POWER8 support Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ignore PMU SPRs Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-30 22:12 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2014-04-30 22:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-02 8:35 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-02 8:35 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-07 7:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-07 7:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-08 12:11 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08 12:11 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Emulate TIR register Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-30 5:51 ` Michael Neuling
2014-04-30 5:51 ` Michael Neuling
2014-04-30 10:06 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-30 10:06 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Handle Facility interrupt and FSCR Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TAR facility to guest Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose EBB registers Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-17 6:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-17 6:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-19 13:09 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-19 13:09 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 9:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-20 9:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-20 11:49 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 11:49 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-04 16:36 ` [PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Add POWER8 support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-04 16:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 11:18 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 11:18 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:50 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:42 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:42 ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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