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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>2016-11-07 15:09:58 +1100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-09 08:32:22 +0100
commit75b1053c2b8c01baedf85f17be8455dadc63a383 (patch)
tree26fc136c7aea8a815f0580e6a1b06c1583adfc31 /Documentation
parent483eeca2cf389ea717cece86cce8494a050cb3f4 (diff)
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore XER in checkpointed register state
commit 0d808df06a44200f52262b6eb72bcb6042f5a7c5 upstream. When switching from/to a guest that has a transaction in progress, we need to save/restore the checkpointed register state. Although XER is part of the CPU state that gets checkpointed, the code that does this saving and restoring doesn't save/restore XER. This fixes it by saving and restoring the XER. To allow userspace to read/write the checkpointed XER value, we also add a new ONE_REG specifier. The visible effect of this bug is that the guest may see its XER value being corrupted when it uses transactions. Fixes: e4e38121507a ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory support") Fixes: 0a8eccefcb34 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing code for transaction reclaim on guest exit") Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt1
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 6bbceb9a3a19..1f5eab4ef88f 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -2050,6 +2050,7 @@ registers, find a list below:
PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_VSCR | 32
PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_DSCR | 64
PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_TAR | 64
+ PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_XER | 64
| |
MIPS | KVM_REG_MIPS_R0 | 64
...