On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 04:29:27AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > 64-bit Book3S exception handlers must find the dynamic kernel base > to add to the target address when branching beyond __end_interrupts, > in order to support kernel running at non-0 physical address. > > Support this in KVM by branching with CTR, similarly to regular > interrupt handlers. The guest CTR saved in HSTATE_SCRATCH1 and > restored after the branch. > > Without this, the host kernel hangs and crashes randomly when it is > running at a non-0 address and a KVM guest is started. > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Looks OK to me. I have a slight quibble about the naming of the "BRANCH_LINK_TO_KVM" macro because neither its definition nor the place where it's used have anything to do with KVM as far as I can see. That needn't stop the patch going in, though. Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
