From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, mikey@neuling.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add support for ppc64le in kvmtool
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:48:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160401104829.GB3604@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459507621.10340.8.camel@ellerman.id.au>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:47:01PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 22:28 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
>
> > Changelog v2: Add support for running a task on all cpus by
> > Michael Ellerman. Large improvements to patch 2/4
> >
> > This patchset adds support for ppc64le. As a part of the support 1/4 converts
> > key data structures in the fdt to big endian. 2/4 introduces h_set_mode call
> > to support little endian interrupt processing. This requires support to execute
> > and queue commands to a particular vcpu and hence a generic infrastructure
> > is added in patch 2/4. Patch 3/4 fixes a race condition found during exit.
> > Patch 4/4 adds support for fixing spapr_pci to support little endian guests
> > so that virtio-pci can be detected and virtio can work
> >
> > This patchset was tested on x64 (on my laptop) and on a ppc64le system.
>
> Hi Will,
>
> I'm pretty happy with this series. We still have plenty of warts in the ppc code
> but this is a definite improvement.
>
> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Brill, thanks Michael. I need to take a closer look at the race condition
fix, because it doesn't sit right with me, but I'll consider the PPC bits
as good for merging.
Will
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-31 11:28 [PATCH 0/5] Add support for ppc64le in kvmtool Balbir Singh
2016-03-31 11:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add basic little endian support Balbir Singh
2016-03-31 11:28 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add basic infrastructure to run tasks on vCPUs Balbir Singh
2016-04-01 10:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-01 11:29 ` Balbir Singh
2016-04-01 12:27 ` Will Deacon
2016-04-07 1:12 ` Balbir Singh
2016-03-31 11:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] Implement H_SET_MODE for ppc64le Balbir Singh
2016-03-31 11:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] Fix a race during exit processing Balbir Singh
2016-04-11 15:37 ` Will Deacon
2016-03-31 11:28 ` [PATCH 5/5] Implement spapr pci for little endian systems Balbir Singh
2016-03-31 13:38 ` [PATCH 0/5] Add support for ppc64le in kvmtool Laurent Vivier
2016-04-01 0:12 ` Balbir Singh
2016-04-04 8:34 ` Balbir Singh
2016-04-04 8:41 ` Laurent Vivier
2016-04-04 10:24 ` Balbir Singh
2016-04-04 12:21 ` Laurent Vivier
2016-04-01 10:47 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-01 10:48 ` Will Deacon [this message]
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