Re: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Emulate TIR register

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On 30.04.14 07:51, Michael Neuling wrote:
In parallel to the Processor ID Register (PIR) threaded POWER8 also adds a
Thread ID Register (TID). Since PR KVM doesn't emulate more than one thread
s/TID/TIR/ above

Oops :)


per core, we can just always expose 0 here.
I'm not sure if we ever do, but if we IPI ourselves using a doorbell,
we'll need to emulate the doorbell as well.

Yeah, we don't. I'm surprised we don't myself, but I'd rather not implement the logic to emulate doorbells until I can easily verify it works - which means either have a Linux guest that does doorbells or have a test harness for kernel level test cases.


Alex

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