Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: Don't accidentally advertise HTM support on POWER9

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 09.05.2017 07:04, David Gibson wrote:
> Logic in spapr_populate_pa_features() enables the bit advertising
> Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) in the guest's device tree only when
> KVM advertises its availability with the KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM feature.
> 
> However, this assumes that the HTM bit is off in the base template used for
> the device tree value.  That is true for POWER8, but not for POWER9.
> 
> It looks like that was accidentally changed in 9fb4541 "spapr: Enable ISA
> 3.0 MMU mode selection via CAS".
> 
> Fixes: 9fb4541f5803f8d2ba116b12113386e26482ba30
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index e2dc77c..1b7cada 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static void spapr_populate_pa_features(CPUPPCState *env, void *fdt, int offset,
>          /* 16: Vector */
>          0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, /* 12 - 17 */
>          /* 18: Vec. Scalar, 20: Vec. XOR, 22: HTM */
> -        0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, /* 18 - 23 */
> +        0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, /* 18 - 23 */
>          /* 24: Ext. Dec, 26: 64 bit ftrs, 28: PM ftrs */
>          0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00, /* 24 - 29 */
>          /* 30: MMR, 32: LE atomic, 34: EBB + ext EBB */
> 

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>