From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "\"“tiejun.chen”\"" <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org mailing list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v5][PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3E HV: call RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE to sync the software state
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:49:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384818544.1403.337.camel@snotra.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <925AA130-F432-4367-BB55-AF833861AB60@suse.de>
On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 16:09 -0500, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 18.11.2013, at 03:34, “tiejun.chen” <tiejun.chen@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/23/2013 09:26 AM, Tiejun Chen wrote:
> >> We enter with interrupts disabled in hardware, but we need to
> >> call RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE anyway to ensure that the software state
> >> is kept in sync instead of calling hard_irq_disable() directly.
>
> Why didn't this happen before? What is this patch fixing?
It's cleanup, not a fix. It makes things more consistent with other
64-bit kernel entry code.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-18 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 1:26 [v5][PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3E HV: call RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE to sync the software state Tiejun Chen
2013-11-18 8:34 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-11-18 21:09 ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-18 23:49 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-11-19 9:51 ` Alexander Graf
2013-11-19 18:32 ` Scott Wood
2013-11-29 2:01 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-12-18 22:05 ` Alexander Graf
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