Re: [PATCH 01/11] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore SIAR and SDAR along with other PMU registers

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On 05.09.2013, at 22:11, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Currently we are not saving and restoring the SIAR and SDAR registers in
> the PMU (performance monitor unit) on guest entry and exit.  The result
> is that performance monitoring tools in the guest could get false
> information about where a program was executing and what data it was
> accessing at the time of a performance monitor interrupt.  This fixes
> it by saving and restoring these registers along with the other PMU
> registers on guest entry/exit.
> 
> This also provides a way for userspace to access these values for a
> vcpu via the one_reg interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to kvm-ppc-queue.


Alex

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