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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Endian fix for accessing VPA yield count

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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 <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Paul Mackerras 2015-03-20 20:39:39 +11:00 committed by Alexander Graf
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commit ecb6d6185b
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arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
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@ -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;
}