From: Diana Craciun Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:03:03 +0000 (+0200) Subject: powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98518c4d8728656db349f875fcbbc7c126d4c973;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register In order to flush the branch predictor the guest kernel performs writes to the BUCSR register which is hypervisor privilleged. However, the branch predictor is flushed at each KVM entry, so the branch predictor has been already flushed, so just return as soon as possible to guest. Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun [mpe: Tweak comment formatting] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c index 3f8189eb56ed..fde1de08b4d7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c @@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr_e500(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int sprn, ulong spr_va vcpu->arch.pwrmgtcr0 = spr_val; break; + case SPRN_BUCSR: + /* + * If we are here, it means that we have already flushed the + * branch predictor, so just return to guest. + */ + break; + /* extra exceptions */ #ifdef CONFIG_SPE_POSSIBLE case SPRN_IVOR32: