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From: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH stable v4.4 3/8] powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:49:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1556552948-24957-4-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1556552948-24957-1-git-send-email-diana.craciun@nxp.com>

commit 98518c4d8728656db349f875fcbbc7c126d4c973 upstream.

In order to flush the branch predictor the guest kernel performs
writes to the BUCSR register which is hypervisor privilleged. However,
the branch predictor is flushed at each KVM entry, so the branch
predictor has been already flushed, so just return as soon as possible
to guest.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
[mpe: Tweak comment formatting]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c
index 990db69a1d0b..fa88f641ac03 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c
@@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr_e500(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int sprn, ulong spr_va
 		vcpu->arch.pwrmgtcr0 = spr_val;
 		break;
 
+	case SPRN_BUCSR:
+		/*
+		 * If we are here, it means that we have already flushed the
+		 * branch predictor, so just return to guest.
+		 */
+		break;
+
 	/* extra exceptions */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPE_POSSIBLE
 	case SPRN_IVOR32:
-- 
2.17.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-29 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-29 15:49 [PATCH stable v4.4 0/8] missing powerpc spectre backports for 4.4 Diana Craciun
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 1/8] powerpc/fsl: Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:40   ` Patch "powerpc/fsl: Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 2/8] powerpc/fsl: Flush branch predictor when entering KVM Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:40   ` Patch "powerpc/fsl: Flush branch predictor when entering KVM" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2019-04-29 15:49 ` Diana Craciun [this message]
2019-04-30 10:40   ` Patch "powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register" " gregkh
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 4/8] powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit) Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:40   ` Patch "powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit)" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 5/8] powerpc/fsl: Sanitize the syscall table for NXP PowerPC 32 bit platforms Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:40   ` Patch "powerpc/fsl: Sanitize the syscall table for NXP PowerPC 32 bit platforms" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 6/8] powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup' Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:40   ` Patch "powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup'" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 7/8] powerpc/fsl: Add FSL_PPC_BOOK3E as supported arch for nospectre_v2 boot arg Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:37   ` Greg KH
2019-04-29 15:49 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 8/8] Documentation: Add nospectre_v1 parameter Diana Craciun
2019-04-30 10:38   ` Greg KH
2019-04-30 10:41 ` [PATCH stable v4.4 0/8] missing powerpc spectre backports for 4.4 Greg KH

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