Re: [PATCH 1/2] target/ppc: Add privileged message send facilities

2020-01-17 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 1/17/20 10:46 AM, David Gibson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >> The Processor Control facility POWER8 processors and later provides >> a mechanism for the hypervisor to send messages to other threads >> in the system (msgsnd instruction) and cause hyp

Re: [PATCH 1/2] target/ppc: Add privileged message send facilities

2020-01-17 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > The Processor Control facility POWER8 processors and later provides > a mechanism for the hypervisor to send messages to other threads > in the system (msgsnd instruction) and cause hypervisor-level > exceptions. Privileged non-hyp

[PATCH 1/2] target/ppc: Add privileged message send facilities

2020-01-09 Thread Cédric Le Goater
The Processor Control facility POWER8 processors and later provides a mechanism for the hypervisor to send messages to other threads in the system (msgsnd instruction) and cause hypervisor-level exceptions. Privileged non-hypervisor programs are also able to send messages (msgsndp instruction) but