Commit 05b0ab1c authored by Alexander Graf's avatar Alexander Graf Committed by Avi Kivity

KVM: PPC: Disable MSR_FEx for Cell hosts

Cell can't handle MSR_FE0 and MSR_FE1 too well. It gets dog slow.
So let's just override the guest whenever we see one of the two and mask them
out. See commit ddf5f75a for reference.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
parent 3ed9c6d2
......@@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ void kvmppc_set_pvr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 pvr)
!strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->platform, "ppc970"))
vcpu->arch.hflags |= BOOK3S_HFLAG_DCBZ32;
/* Cell performs badly if MSR_FEx are set. So let's hope nobody
really needs them in a VM on Cell and force disable them. */
if (!strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->platform, "ppc-cell-be"))
to_book3s(vcpu)->msr_mask &= ~(MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1);
}
/* Book3s_32 CPUs always have 32 bytes cache line size, which Linux assumes. To
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