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KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_ME with paravirt.

If there is pending critical or machine check interrupt then guest
would like to capture it when guest enable MSR.CE and MSR_ME respectively.
Also as mostly MSR_CE and MSR_ME are updated with rfi/rfci/rfmii
which anyway traps so removing the the paravirt optimization for MSR.CE
and MSR.ME.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Bharat Bhushan 13 years ago
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2 changed files with 1 additions and 3 deletions
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      Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
  2. 1 1
      arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S

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Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt

@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ The following bits are safe to be set inside the guest:
 
   MSR_EE
   MSR_RI
-  MSR_CR
-  MSR_ME
 
 If any other bit changes in the MSR, please still use mtmsr(d).
 

+ 1 - 1
arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ kvm_emulate_mtmsrd_len:
 	.long (kvm_emulate_mtmsrd_end - kvm_emulate_mtmsrd) / 4
 
 
-#define MSR_SAFE_BITS (MSR_EE | MSR_CE | MSR_ME | MSR_RI)
+#define MSR_SAFE_BITS (MSR_EE | MSR_RI)
 #define MSR_CRITICAL_BITS ~MSR_SAFE_BITS
 
 .global kvm_emulate_mtmsr