From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Fix PURR and SPURR emulation
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:50:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y51wjv0w.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E92D15.8000901@suse.de>
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
> On 01/28/2014 05:44 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> We definitely don't need to emulate mtspr, because both the registers
>> are hypervisor resource.
>
> This patch description doesn't cover what the patch actually does. It
> changes the implementation from "always tell the guest it uses 100%" to
> "give the guest an accurate amount of cpu time spent inside guest
> context".
Will fix that
>
> Also, I think we either go with full hyp semantics which means we also
> emulate the offset or we go with no hyp awareness in the guest at all
> which means we also don't emulate SPURR which is a hyp privileged
> register.
Can you clarify this ?
>
> Otherwise I like the patch :).
>
-aneesh
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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Fix PURR and SPURR emulation
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:08:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y51wjv0w.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E92D15.8000901@suse.de>
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
> On 01/28/2014 05:44 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> We definitely don't need to emulate mtspr, because both the registers
>> are hypervisor resource.
>
> This patch description doesn't cover what the patch actually does. It
> changes the implementation from "always tell the guest it uses 100%" to
> "give the guest an accurate amount of cpu time spent inside guest
> context".
Will fix that
>
> Also, I think we either go with full hyp semantics which means we also
> emulate the offset or we go with no hyp awareness in the guest at all
> which means we also don't emulate SPURR which is a hyp privileged
> register.
Can you clarify this ?
>
> Otherwise I like the patch :).
>
-aneesh
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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Fix PURR and SPURR emulation
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:08:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y51wjv0w.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E92D15.8000901@suse.de>
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
> On 01/28/2014 05:44 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> We definitely don't need to emulate mtspr, because both the registers
>> are hypervisor resource.
>
> This patch description doesn't cover what the patch actually does. It
> changes the implementation from "always tell the guest it uses 100%" to
> "give the guest an accurate amount of cpu time spent inside guest
> context".
Will fix that
>
> Also, I think we either go with full hyp semantics which means we also
> emulate the offset or we go with no hyp awareness in the guest at all
> which means we also don't emulate SPURR which is a hyp privileged
> register.
Can you clarify this ?
>
> Otherwise I like the patch :).
>
-aneesh
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2014-01-28 16:44 [RFC PATCH 01/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Add POWER8 support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Fix PURR and SPURR emulation Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-29 16:32 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 16:32 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 16:32 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 10:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2014-01-31 10:50 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 10:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 10:47 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 10:47 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 10:47 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 22:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-31 22:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-31 22:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-02-05 9:15 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-05 9:15 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-05 9:15 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate virtual timebase register Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-29 16:39 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 16:39 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 16:39 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 22:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-01-29 22:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-01-29 22:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-01-30 0:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-01-30 0:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-01-30 0:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-01-30 5:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-30 5:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-30 5:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-30 10:04 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 10:04 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 10:04 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 10:57 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 10:57 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 10:57 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate instruction counter Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-29 16:40 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 16:40 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 16:40 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 11:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:37 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:28 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 11:28 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 11:28 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate Thread identification register Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Doorbell support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate DPDES register Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Emulate facility status and control register Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-29 17:11 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 17:11 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 17:11 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 6:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-30 6:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-30 6:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-30 10:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 10:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-30 10:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 11:28 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:28 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Add support for facility unavailable interrupt Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-29 17:35 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 17:35 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 17:35 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 11:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:52 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 11:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-31 12:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 12:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-31 12:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: PR: Ignore write to monitor mode control register Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] PPC: BOOK3S: Disable/Enable TM looking at the ibm, pa-features device tree entry Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:56 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] PPC: BOOK3S: Disable/Enable TM looking at the ibm,pa-features " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-28 16:44 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-29 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] PPC: BOOK3S: Disable/Enable TM looking at the ibm,pa-features device tree entr Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] PPC: BOOK3S: Disable/Enable TM looking at the ibm,pa-features device tree entry Alexander Graf
2014-01-29 17:37 ` Alexander Graf
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