RE: [PATCH 7/7 v3] KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and exception

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 5:30 AM
> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Cc: agraf@xxxxxxx; kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Yoder Stuart-
> B08248
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7 v3] KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and
> exception
> 
> On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 12:08 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> > @@ -1249,6 +1284,7 @@ int kvmppc_subarch_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  	setup_timer(&vcpu->arch.wdt_timer, kvmppc_watchdog_func,
> >  		    (unsigned long)vcpu);
> >
> > +	kvmppc_clear_dbsr();
> >  	return 0;
> 
> This could use a comment for why we're doing this.  Also, I'm a bit uneasy about
> clearing the whole DBSR here, where we haven't yet switched the debug registers
> to guest context.

I think we wanted MRR to not cause debug event to guest, So should we only clear MRR ?

> It shouldn't actually matter except for deferred debug
> exceptions which are not actually useful (in fact e6500 removed support for
> them),

Exactly, that's why I was clearing complete DBSR. Probably we can have a comment
" Do not let previously set debug events visible to guest. As deferred debug events
  are not supported, so it is ok to clear complete DBSR.
" 

Thanks
-Bharat

> but still...
> 
> -Scott
> 

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