Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] KVM: PPC: e500: Save/restore SPE state

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On 31.03.2011, at 01:34, Scott Wood wrote:

> This is done lazily.  The SPE save will be done only if the guest has
> used SPE since the last preemption or heavyweight exit.  Restore will be
> done only on demand, when enabling MSR_SPE in the shadow MSR, in response
> to an SPE fault or mtmsr emulation.
> 
> For SPEFSCR, Linux already switches it on context switch (non-lazily), so
> the only remaining bit is to save it between qemu and the guest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me now, still waiting for ACKs on the first patches. Then I'll shove them into my tree.


Alex

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