From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: ppc: Fix size of the PSPB register
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:16:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E6A245.2050108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150901222434.GA23007@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On 02/09/15 00:24, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:41:18PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The size of the Problem State Priority Boost Register is only
>> 32 bits, so let's change the type of the corresponding variable
>> accordingly to avoid future trouble.
>
> Since we're already using lwz/stw in the assembly code in
> book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S, this is actually a bug fix, isn't it?
> How did you find it? Did you observe a failure of some kind, or did
> you just find it by code inspection?
Code inspection. I was looking for similar problems like the issue with
the XER register that we've hit recently
(https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/476872/) while I was trying to debug
a similar problem.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-02 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-01 21:41 [PATCH] KVM: ppc: Fix size of the PSPB register Thomas Huth
2015-09-01 22:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2015-09-01 22:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-09-02 7:16 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2015-09-01 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-09-01 22:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2015-09-01 22:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-09-02 7:26 ` Thomas Huth
2015-09-02 8:26 ` Alexander Graf
2015-09-02 8:35 ` Thomas Huth
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