From: Avi Kivity <avi-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
KVM General <kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: FPU/Altivec/VSX bringup
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:33:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B530391.6000701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263563354-11075-1-git-send-email-agraf-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
On 01/15/2010 03:49 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Right now the code to use external providers (FPU/Altivec/FSX) is rather hacky.
>
> We just set the respective feature bit in the guest MSR when the guest requests
> it and declare it as good. Now, Linux wants to mess around there too, so
> whenever a process switch occurs, it saves the external provider state and
> reloads the current thread ones'.
>
> Unfortunately, we didn't tell Linux about our guest state. So Linux doesn't even
> get the chance to swap any of our registers around which means it ends up
> restoring registers from random processes - and we lose all state.
>
> This patchset makes at least FPU and Altivec work. I don't have a VSX machine to
> test that extension on. While at it, it also fixes some issues I've stumbled
> across during debug.
>
> The basic ideas on how this should work come from Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
> Thanks a lot for giving input on this one (and all the other times)!
>
Applied all, thanks.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-15 13:49 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: PPC: FPU/Altivec/VSX bringup Alexander Graf
[not found] ` <1263563354-11075-1-git-send-email-agraf-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-15 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: PPC: Export __giveup_vsx Alexander Graf
2010-01-15 13:49 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: PPC: Add support for FPU/Altivec/VSX Alexander Graf
2010-01-15 13:49 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: PPC: Fix initial GPR settings Alexander Graf
2010-01-15 13:49 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: Move Shadow MSR calculation to function Alexander Graf
2010-01-17 12:33 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-15 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: PPC: Add helper functions to call real mode loaders Alexander Graf
2010-01-15 13:49 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: PPC: Keep SRR1 flags around in shadow_msr Alexander Graf
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