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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org mailing list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: book3s: kvm: Use the saved dsisr and dar values
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:32:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo0d9vc5.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0AB88010-F2B7-44A1-8FA9-2A40079706BB@suse.de>

Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:

> On 11.11.2013, at 15:02, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
>> Don't try to compute these values.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> 
>> NOTE: I am not sure why we were originally computing dsisr and dar. So may be
>> we need a variant of this patch. But with this and the additional patch
>> "powerpc: book3s: PR: Enable Little Endian PR guest" I am able to get a Little Endian
>> PR guest to boot.
>
> It's quite easy to find out - git blame tells you all the history and points you to commit ca7f4203b.
>
> commit ca7f4203b9b66e12d0d9968ff7dfe781f3a9695a
> Author: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> Date:   Wed Mar 24 21:48:28 2010 +0100
>
>     KVM: PPC: Implement alignment interrupt
>
>     Mac OS X has some applications - namely the Finder - that require alignment
>     interrupts to work properly. So we need to implement them.
>
>     But the spec for 970 and 750 also looks different. While 750 requires the
>     DSISR and DAR fields to reflect some instruction bits (DSISR) and the fault
>     address (DAR), the 970 declares this as an optional feature. So we need
>     to reconstruct DSISR and DAR manually.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
>
> Read this as "on 970, alignment interrupts don't give us DSISR and DAR of the faulting instruction" as otherwise I wouldn't have implemented it.
>
> So this is clearly a nack on this patch :).

I can possibly do a if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_201)). But do we need
to do that ? According to Paul we should always find DAR.

-aneesh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-19  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-11 14:02 [PATCH] powerpc: book3s: kvm: Use the saved dsisr and dar values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-11-28  4:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-12-18 21:44 ` Alexander Graf
2013-12-19  2:26   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-12-19  7:02   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2013-12-19 12:35     ` Alexander Graf
2013-12-20  4:37       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-12-20  6:38         ` Alexander Graf

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