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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Emulate TIR register
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:06:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5360CB2E.50104@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19971.1398837074@ale.ozlabs.ibm.com>


On 30.04.14 07:51, Michael Neuling wrote:
>> In parallel to the Processor ID Register (PIR) threaded POWER8 also adds a
>> Thread ID Register (TID). Since PR KVM doesn't emulate more than one thread
> s/TID/TIR/ above

Oops :)

>
>> per core, we can just always expose 0 here.
> I'm not sure if we ever do, but if we IPI ourselves using a doorbell,
> we'll need to emulate the doorbell as well.

Yeah, we don't. I'm surprised we don't myself, but I'd rather not 
implement the logic to emulate doorbells until I can easily verify it 
works - which means either have a Linux guest that does doorbells or 
have a test harness for kernel level test cases.


Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-30 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ 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 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ignore PMU SPRs Alexander Graf
2014-04-30 22:12   ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-02  8:35     ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-07  7:09       ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-08 12:11         ` Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Emulate TIR register Alexander Graf
2014-04-30  5:51   ` Michael Neuling
2014-04-30 10:06     ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Handle Facility interrupt and FSCR 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 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose EBB registers Alexander Graf
2014-04-29 16:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Expose TM registers Alexander Graf
2014-05-17  6:20   ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-19 13:09     ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20  9:59       ` Paul Mackerras
2014-05-20 11:49         ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-04 16:48 ` [PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Add POWER8 support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 11:18   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:50     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-05-05 14:42       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-05 14:48         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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