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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com>,
	kumar.gala@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: disable timebase synchronization under the hypervisor
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:14:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110614181406.294cdf5f@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308092673-13045-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com>

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:04:33 -0500
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:

> The Freescale hypervisor does not allow guests to write to the timebase
> registers (virtualizing the timebase register was deemed too complicated),
> so don't try to synchronize the timebase registers when we're running
> under the hypervisor.
> 
> This typically happens when kexec support is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>

FWIW, it's not supported under KVM either -- though we don't support an SMP
guest under KVM yet, and KVM silently ignores it rather than logs errors as
the FSL HV does.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-14 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-14 23:04 [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: disable timebase synchronization under the hypervisor Timur Tabi
2011-06-14 23:14 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2011-06-14 23:15   ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-14 23:25     ` Scott Wood
2011-06-15  1:58       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-15  2:10         ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-06-15  2:33           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-22 11:44             ` Kumar Gala
2011-06-22 14:55               ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-23 17:22                 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-23 17:33                   ` Timur Tabi
2011-06-23 17:48                     ` Scott Wood
2011-06-24  2:36                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-06-24  2:38                         ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-06-24  3:50                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-06-24 15:16                           ` Scott Wood
2011-06-24 23:36               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-27 13:35 ` Kumar Gala

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