> -----Original Message----- > From: kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Alexander Graf > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:01 PM > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 > Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Bhushan Bharat-R65777 > Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_DE with paravirt. > > On 05/15/2012 09:37 AM, Bharat Bhushan wrote: > > 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. > > It's only not safe for e500mc and above, right? For e500mc and above the paravirt emulation code will not come into picture, And critical and machine check interrupt will happen only if MSR have corresponding bits set. So they are already safe. Is not it? > E500v2 and book3s should be > fine. And with this patch e500v2 will be fine? Not sure of book3s :). Thanks -Bharat > > > Alex > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
