RE: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and exception

-Original Message- From: Wood Scott-B07421 Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:18 AM To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 Cc: ag...@suse.de; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org; Yoder Stuart- B08248 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and exception

[PATCH] KVM: PPC: PR: Handle FSCR feature deselects

We handle FSCR feature bits (well, TAR only really today) lazily when the guest starts using them. So when a guest activates the bit and later uses that feature we enable it for real in hardware. However, when the guest stops using that bit we don't stop setting it in hardware. That means we can

Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: BOOKE: Emulate debug registers and exception

On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 01:15 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote: -Original Message- From: Wood Scott-B07421 Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:18 AM To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 Cc: ag...@suse.de; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org; Yoder Stuart- B08248 Subject: Re:

[PATCH v3] powerpc/kvm: support to handle sw breakpoint

This patch adds kernel side support for software breakpoint. Design is that, by using an illegal instruction, we trap to hypervisor via Emulation Assistance interrupt, where we check for the illegal instruction and accordingly we return to Host or Guest. Patch also adds support for software