From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:39:39 +0000 (+1100) Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Endian fix for accessing VPA yield count X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecb6d6185b3ae40067330eb889977bf2a51f7429;p=linux-beck.git KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Endian fix for accessing VPA yield count The VPA (virtual processor area) is defined by PAPR and is therefore big-endian, so we need a be32_to_cpu when reading it in kvmppc_get_yield_count(). Without this, H_CONFER always fails on a little-endian host, causing SMP guests to waste time spinning on spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c index b2731933f807..de747563d29d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static int kvmppc_get_yield_count(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) spin_lock(&vcpu->arch.vpa_update_lock); lppaca = (struct lppaca *)vcpu->arch.vpa.pinned_addr; if (lppaca) - yield_count = lppaca->yield_count; + yield_count = be32_to_cpu(lppaca->yield_count); spin_unlock(&vcpu->arch.vpa_update_lock); return yield_count; }