Thread (37 messages) 37 messages, 2 authors, 2010-09-01
STALE5755d

[PATCH 23/35] KVM: PPC: Don't put MSR_POW in MSR

From: Alexander Graf <hidden>
Date: 2010-08-31 02:32:25
Also in: kvm
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for powerpc (kvm/powerpc), linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds

On Book3S a mtmsr with the MSR_POW bit set indicates that the OS is in
idle and only needs to be waked up on the next interrupt.

Now, unfortunately we let that bit slip into the stored MSR value which
is not what the real CPU does, so that we ended up executing code like
this:

	r = mfmsr();
	/* r containts MSR_POW */
	mtmsr(r | MSR_EE);

This obviously breaks, as we're going into idle mode in code sections that
don't expect to be idling.

This patch masks MSR_POW out of the stored MSR value on wakeup, making
guests happy again.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
index 7adea63..5833df7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
@@ -134,10 +134,14 @@ void kvmppc_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 msr)
 	vcpu->arch.shared->msr = msr;
 	kvmppc_recalc_shadow_msr(vcpu);
 
-	if (msr & (MSR_WE|MSR_POW)) {
+	if (msr & MSR_POW) {
 		if (!vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions) {
 			kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
 			vcpu->stat.halt_wakeup++;
+
+			/* Unset POW bit after we woke up */
+			msr &= ~MSR_POW;
+			vcpu->arch.shared->msr = msr;
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
1.6.0.2
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help