From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/17] PowerPC: booke64: Use SPRG0/3 scratch for bolted TLB miss & crit int
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:24:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEA3688.5030603@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340627195-11544-14-git-send-email-mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
On 06/25/2012 07:26 AM, Mihai Caraman wrote:
> Embedded.Hypervisor category defines GSPRG0..3 physical registers for guests.
> Avoid SPRG4-7 usage as scratch in host exception handlers, otherwise guest
> SPRG4-7 registers will be clobbered.
> For bolted TLB miss exception handlers, which is the version currently
> supported by KVM, use SPRN_SPRG_GEN_SCRATCH (aka SPRG0) instead of
> SPRN_SPRG_TLB_SCRATCH (aka SPRG6) and replace TLB with GEN PACA slots to
> keep consitency.
> For critical exception handler use SPRG3 instead of SPRG7.
extlb is in the same cache line as other TLB stuff we need, while exgen
isn't. Let's stick with extlb.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-26 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-25 12:26 [RFC PATCH 00/17] KVM: PPC: 64-bit Book3E support Mihai Caraman
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] KVM: PPC64: booke: Set interrupt computation mode for 64-bit host Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 13:22 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] KVM: PPC64: booke: Add EPCR support in mtspr/mfspr emulation Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 13:21 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 14:14 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-04 14:53 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] KVM: PPC64: booke: Add EPCR support in sregs Mihai Caraman
2012-06-25 12:59 ` Avi Kivity
2012-06-25 13:24 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-06-25 13:36 ` Avi Kivity
2012-06-26 22:34 ` Scott Wood
2012-06-27 11:41 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-06-27 15:23 ` Scott Wood
2012-07-04 13:33 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-05 11:49 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-05 12:12 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-05 12:54 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-11 18:07 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] KVM: PPC64: booke: Add guest computation mode for irq delivery Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 13:40 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-05 9:28 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-05 23:51 ` Scott Wood
2012-07-06 7:03 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] KVM: PPC: booke: Extend MAS2 EPN mask for 64-bit Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 13:49 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-05 11:14 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-10-08 10:10 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-08 13:06 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-10-08 13:10 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] KVM: PPC: e500: Add emulation helper for getting instruction ea Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 13:56 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-05 11:39 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-11 17:53 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] KVM: PPC: e500: Mask ea's high 32-bits in 32/64 instr emulation Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 14:00 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 14:05 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix tlbilx emulation for 64-bit guests Mihai Caraman
2012-07-06 14:54 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] KVM: PPC64: booke: Hard disable interrupts when entering guest Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 14:14 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-06 23:03 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] PowerPC: booke64: Refactor exception prolog for save/restore regs Mihai Caraman
2012-06-26 22:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-27 11:49 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] PowerPC: booke64: Fix machine check handler to use the right prolog Mihai Caraman
2012-06-26 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] PowerPC: booke64: Add DO_KVM kernel hooks Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 14:29 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 15:27 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-04 15:45 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 18:15 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-06 0:19 ` Scott Wood
2012-07-04 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-06 22:33 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-06 23:11 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-07 8:39 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-11 22:25 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-11 22:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-11 22:35 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-11 22:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-11 22:51 ` Alexander Graf
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] PowerPC: booke64: Use SPRG0/3 scratch for bolted TLB miss & crit int Mihai Caraman
2012-06-26 22:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-05 15:51 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-06-26 22:24 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] KVM: PPC32: bookehv: Remove GET_VCPU macro from exception handler Mihai Caraman
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] KVM: PPC64: bookehv: Add support for interrupt handling Mihai Caraman
2012-07-04 15:13 ` [Qemu-ppc] " Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 15:37 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-07-04 15:46 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-04 18:21 ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] KVM: PPC: e500: Silence bogus GCC warning in tlb code Mihai Caraman
2012-06-25 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] KVM: PPC: booke: Fix get_tb() compile error on 64-bit Mihai Caraman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4FEA3688.5030603@freescale.com \
--to=scottwood@freescale.com \
--cc=kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org \
--cc=mihai.caraman@freescale.com \
--cc=qemu-ppc@nongnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).