Patchwork [3.5.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf" has been added to staging queue

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Submitter Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date Jan. 30, 2013, 9:57 p.m.
Message ID <1359583048-17310-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
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Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski - Jan. 30, 2013, 9:57 p.m.
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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From a20e33977677517504f2968951ce29fd9b27753d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:50:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf

commit d3286144c92ec876da9e30320afa875699b7e0f1 upstream.

Guests can trigger MMIO exits using dcbf. Since we don't emulate cache
incoherent MMIO, just do nothing and move on.

Reported-by: Ben Collins <ben.c@servergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Tested-by: Ben Collins <ben.c@servergy.com>
[ herton: adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--
1.7.9.5

Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
index f90e86d..d382c91 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ 
 #define OP_31_XOP_TRAP      4
 #define OP_31_XOP_LWZX      23
 #define OP_31_XOP_TRAP_64   68
+#define OP_31_XOP_DCBF      86
 #define OP_31_XOP_LBZX      87
 #define OP_31_XOP_STWX      151
 #define OP_31_XOP_STBX      215
@@ -351,6 +352,7 @@  int kvmppc_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 			kvmppc_set_exit_type(vcpu, EMULATED_MTSPR_EXITS);
 			break;

+		case OP_31_XOP_DCBF:
 		case OP_31_XOP_DCBI:
 			/* Do nothing. The guest is performing dcbi because
 			 * hardware DMA is not snooped by the dcache, but