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* [PATCH] powerpc: Document how we set AIL on guest kernels
@ 2014-07-17  5:29 Michael Ellerman
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From: Michael Ellerman @ 2014-07-17  5:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I spent ten minutes scratching my head, trying to work out where we
enabled relocation on interrupts for guest kernels. Expand the doco to
make it clear.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index ee082d771178..d600b3fe5f5c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -201,7 +201,11 @@ static void cpu_ready_for_interrupts(void)
 	/* Set IR and DR in PACA MSR */
 	get_paca()->kernel_msr = MSR_KERNEL;
 
-	/* Enable AIL if supported */
+	/*
+	 * Enable AIL if supported, and we are in hypervisor mode. If we are
+	 * not in hypervisor mode, we enable relocation-on interrupts later
+	 * in pSeries_setup_arch() using the H_SET_MODE hcall.
+	 */
 	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_HVMODE) &&
 	    cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)) {
 		unsigned long lpcr = mfspr(SPRN_LPCR);
-- 
1.9.1

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