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Halil Pasic authored
There is at least one guest (OS) such that although it does not rely on the guarantees provided by ORB 1 word 9 bit (aka unlimited prefetch, aka P bit) not being set, it fails to tell this to the machine. Usually this ain't a big deal, as the original purpose of the P bit is to allow for performance optimizations. vfio-ccw however can not provide the guarantees required if the bit is not set. It is not possible to implement support for the P bit not set without transitioning to lower level protocols for vfio-ccw. So let's give the user the opportunity to force setting the P bit, if the user knows this is safe. For self modifying channel programs forcing the P bit is not safe. If the P bit is forced for a self modifying channel program things are expected to break in strange ways. Let's also avoid warning multiple about P bit not set in the ORB in case P bit is not told to be forced, and designate the affected vfio-ccw device. Signed-off-by:
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by:
Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by:
Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by:
Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20180524175828.3143-2-pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by:
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>Halil Pasic authoredThere is at least one guest (OS) such that although it does not rely on the guarantees provided by ORB 1 word 9 bit (aka unlimited prefetch, aka P bit) not being set, it fails to tell this to the machine. Usually this ain't a big deal, as the original purpose of the P bit is to allow for performance optimizations. vfio-ccw however can not provide the guarantees required if the bit is not set. It is not possible to implement support for the P bit not set without transitioning to lower level protocols for vfio-ccw. So let's give the user the opportunity to force setting the P bit, if the user knows this is safe. For self modifying channel programs forcing the P bit is not safe. If the P bit is forced for a self modifying channel program things are expected to break in strange ways. Let's also avoid warning multiple about P bit not set in the ORB in case P bit is not told to be forced, and designate the affected vfio-ccw device. Signed-off-by:
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by:
Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by:
Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by:
Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20180524175828.3143-2-pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by:
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
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