RE: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_DE with paravirt.

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Please ignore this patch as this is having 1/2.
This is only one patch. Will send after removing 1/2

Thanks
-Bharat


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:05 PM
> To: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; agraf@xxxxxxx
> Cc: Bhushan Bharat-R65777; Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_DE with paravirt.
> 
> From: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If there is pending critical or machine check interrupt then guest would like to
> capture it when guest enable MSR.CE and MSR_ME respectively.
> Also as mostly MSR_CE and MSR_ME are updated with rfi/rfci/rfmii which anyway
> traps so removing the the paravirt optimization for MSR.CE and MSR.ME.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt |    2 --
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S       |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
> b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
> index 6e7c370..4911cf9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
> @@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ The following bits are safe to be set inside the guest:
> 
>    MSR_EE
>    MSR_RI
> -  MSR_CR
> -  MSR_ME
> 
>  If any other bit changes in the MSR, please still use mtmsr(d).
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
> index e291cf3..3dfa890 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ kvm_emulate_mtmsrd_len:
>  	.long (kvm_emulate_mtmsrd_end - kvm_emulate_mtmsrd) / 4
> 
> 
> -#define MSR_SAFE_BITS (MSR_EE | MSR_CE | MSR_ME | MSR_RI)
> +#define MSR_SAFE_BITS (MSR_EE | MSR_RI)
>  #define MSR_CRITICAL_BITS ~MSR_SAFE_BITS
> 
>  .global kvm_emulate_mtmsr
> --
> 1.7.0.4


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