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<title>Merge tag 'pm-config-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2014-12-20T21:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-20T21:37:44+00:00</published>
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Pull CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME elimination from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This removes the last few uses of CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME introduced
  recently and makes that config option finally go away.

  CONFIG_PM will be available directly from the menu now and also it
  will be selected automatically if CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION
  is set"

* tag 'pm-config-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
  tty: 8250_omap: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
  sound: sst-haswell-pcm: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
  spi: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
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Pull CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME elimination from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This removes the last few uses of CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME introduced
  recently and makes that config option finally go away.

  CONFIG_PM will be available directly from the menu now and also it
  will be selected automatically if CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION
  is set"

* tag 'pm-config-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
  tty: 8250_omap: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
  sound: sst-haswell-pcm: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
  spi: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
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<entry>
<title>PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T21:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T14:37:54+00:00</published>
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Having switched over all of the users of CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME to use
CONFIG_PM directly, turn the latter into a user-selectable option
and drop the former entirely from the tree.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
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Having switched over all of the users of CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME to use
CONFIG_PM directly, turn the latter into a user-selectable option
and drop the former entirely from the tree.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T20:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T20:57:45+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "The highlight is the series that reworks the idle management on
  powernv, which allows us to use deeper idle states on those machines.

  There's the fix from Anton for the "BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!"
  problem.

  An i2c driver for powernv.  This is acked by Wolfram Sang, and he
  asked that we take it through the powerpc tree.

  A fix for audit from rgb at Red Hat, acked by Paul Moore who is one of
  the audit maintainers.

  A patch from Ben to export the symbol map of our OPAL firmware as a
  sysfs file, so that tools can use it.

  Also some CXL fixes, a couple of powerpc perf fixes, a fix for
  smt-enabled, and the patch to add __force to get_user() so we can use
  bitwise types"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later
  powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types
  powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL firmware symbol map
  powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus
  powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management
  powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
  powerpc/powernv: Switch off MMU before entering nap/sleep/rvwinkle mode
  i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses
  powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()
  power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
  cxl: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context
  cxl: Add timeout to process element commands
  cxl: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug
  powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online
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Pull second batch of powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "The highlight is the series that reworks the idle management on
  powernv, which allows us to use deeper idle states on those machines.

  There's the fix from Anton for the "BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!"
  problem.

  An i2c driver for powernv.  This is acked by Wolfram Sang, and he
  asked that we take it through the powerpc tree.

  A fix for audit from rgb at Red Hat, acked by Paul Moore who is one of
  the audit maintainers.

  A patch from Ben to export the symbol map of our OPAL firmware as a
  sysfs file, so that tools can use it.

  Also some CXL fixes, a couple of powerpc perf fixes, a fix for
  smt-enabled, and the patch to add __force to get_user() so we can use
  bitwise types"

* tag 'powerpc-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux:
  powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later
  powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types
  powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL firmware symbol map
  powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus
  powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management
  powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
  powerpc/powernv: Switch off MMU before entering nap/sleep/rvwinkle mode
  i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses
  powerpc: add little endian flag to syscall_get_arch()
  power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
  cxl: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context
  cxl: Add timeout to process element commands
  cxl: Change contexts_lock to a mutex to fix sleep while atomic bug
  powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T00:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-19T00:05:28+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "3.19 changes for KVM:

   - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-
     assisted virtualization on the PPC970

   - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes

  For x86:
   - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
   - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
   - APICv fixes
   - XSAVES support for hosts and guests.  XSAVES hosts were broken
     because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM
     userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is
     going to stable.  Guest support is just a matter of exposing the
     feature and CPUID leaves support"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits)
  KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint
  arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers
  ...
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "3.19 changes for KVM:

   - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-
     assisted virtualization on the PPC970

   - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes

  For x86:
   - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
   - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
   - APICv fixes
   - XSAVES support for hosts and guests.  XSAVES hosts were broken
     because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM
     userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is
     going to stable.  Guest support is just a matter of exposing the
     feature and CPUID leaves support"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits)
  KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions
  arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint
  arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: E500: Compile fix in this_cpu_write</title>
<updated>2014-12-19T00:02:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>agraf@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-18T09:17:08+00:00</published>
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Commit 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses") introduced
compile breakage to the e500 target by introducing invalid automatically
created C syntax.

Fix up the breakage and make the code compile again.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses") introduced
compile breakage to the e500 target by introducing invalid automatically
created C syntax.

Fix up the breakage and make the code compile again.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later</title>
<updated>2014-12-18T08:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kurz</name>
<email>gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-12T11:37:40+00:00</published>
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Starting with POWER8, the subcore logic relies on all threads of a core
being booted so that they can participate in split mode switches. So on
those machines we ignore the smt_enabled_at_boot setting (smt-enabled on
the kernel command line).

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz &lt;gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Update comment and change log to be more precise]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Starting with POWER8, the subcore logic relies on all threads of a core
being booted so that they can participate in split mode switches. So on
those machines we ignore the smt_enabled_at_boot setting (smt-enabled on
the kernel command line).

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz &lt;gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Update comment and change log to be more precise]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/uaccess: Allow get_user() with bitwise types</title>
<updated>2014-12-18T08:11:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-14T16:52:51+00:00</published>
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At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.

This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).

When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.

For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.

Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.

virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Fill in changelog with more details]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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At the moment, if p and x are both of the same bitwise type
(eg. __le32), get_user(x, p) produces a sparse warning.

This is because *p is loaded into a long then cast back to typeof(*p).

When typeof(*p) is a bitwise type (which is uncommon), such a cast needs
__force, otherwise sparse produces a warning.

For non-bitwise types __force should have no effect, and should not hide
any legitimate errors.

Note that we are casting to typeof(*p) not typeof(x). Even with the
cast, if x and *p are of different types we should get the warning, so I
think we are not loosing the ability to detect any actual errors.

virtio would like to use bitwise types with get_user() so fix these
spurious warnings by adding __force.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
[mpe: Fill in changelog with more details]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T21:23:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:42+00:00</published>
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The in-kernel XICS emulation is faster than doing it all in QEMU
and it has got a lot of testing, so enable it by default.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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The in-kernel XICS emulation is faster than doing it all in QEMU
and it has got a lot of testing, so enable it by default.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:40+00:00</published>
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Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest.  This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU.  The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything.  If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer.  The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer.  If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS.  In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler.  If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore.  In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock.  This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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Currently the H_CONFER hcall is implemented in kernel virtual mode,
meaning that whenever a guest thread does an H_CONFER, all the threads
in that virtual core have to exit the guest.  This is bad for
performance because it interrupts the other threads even if they
are doing useful work.

The H_CONFER hcall is called by a guest VCPU when it is spinning on a
spinlock and it detects that the spinlock is held by a guest VCPU that
is currently not running on a physical CPU.  The idea is to give this
VCPU's time slice to the holder VCPU so that it can make progress
towards releasing the lock.

To avoid having the other threads exit the guest unnecessarily,
we add a real-mode implementation of H_CONFER that checks whether
the other threads are doing anything.  If all the other threads
are idle (i.e. in H_CEDE) or trying to confer (i.e. in H_CONFER),
it returns H_TOO_HARD which causes a guest exit and allows the
H_CONFER to be handled in virtual mode.

Otherwise it spins for a short time (up to 10 microseconds) to give
other threads the chance to observe that this thread is trying to
confer.  The spin loop also terminates when any thread exits the guest
or when all other threads are idle or trying to confer.  If the
timeout is reached, the H_CONFER returns H_SUCCESS.  In this case the
guest VCPU will recheck the spinlock word and most likely call
H_CONFER again.

This also improves the implementation of the H_CONFER virtual mode
handler.  If the VCPU is part of a virtual core (vcore) which is
runnable, there will be a 'runner' VCPU which has taken responsibility
for running the vcore.  In this case we yield to the runner VCPU
rather than the target VCPU.

We also introduce a check on the target VCPU's yield count: if it
differs from the yield count passed to H_CONFER, the target VCPU
has run since H_CONFER was called and may have already released
the lock.  This check is required by PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T12:50:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T02:30:39+00:00</published>
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There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S.  If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register).  If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.

Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst.  The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness.  The rest of the code that uses vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.

To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value.  Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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There are two ways in which a guest instruction can be obtained from
the guest in the guest exit code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S.  If the
exit was caused by a Hypervisor Emulation interrupt (i.e. an illegal
instruction), the offending instruction is in the HEIR register
(Hypervisor Emulation Instruction Register).  If the exit was caused
by a load or store to an emulated MMIO device, we load the instruction
from the guest by turning data relocation on and loading the instruction
with an lwz instruction.

Unfortunately, in the case where the guest has opposite endianness to
the host, these two methods give results of different endianness, but
both get put into vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst.  The HEIR value has been loaded
using guest endianness, whereas the lwz will load the instruction using
host endianness.  The rest of the code that uses vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst
assumes it was loaded using host endianness.

To fix this, we define a new vcpu field to store the HEIR value.  Then,
in kvmppc_handle_exit_hv(), we transfer the value from this new field to
vcpu-&gt;arch.last_inst, doing a byte-swap if the guest and host endianness
differ.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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