On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 19:12:16 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The XIVE enablement patches set LPES0 on POWER9 host. This bit sets
> external interrupts to guest delivery mode that uses SRR[01]. The host's
> EE interrupt handler expects HSRR[01] (for earlier CPUs). which is fine
> because XIVE is configured not to deliver EE to the host (HVI is used
> instead) so this should never be executed.
>
> However a bug in interrupt controller code or odd configuration of
> mambo/systemsim could result in the host getting EE. Keeping EE delivery
> mode matching the host handler prevents strange crashes due to using
> the wrong exception registers.
>
> When running in guest mode and getting EE, the guest LPCR will be
> loaded by KVM which contains the LPES0 bit.
>
> Fixes: 08a1e650cc ("powerpc: Fixup LPCR:PECE and HEIC setting on POWER9")
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8d1b48ef580097e111c2644e6fc604
cheers
