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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
index 67061d399cd9..3d0251edc13c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
@@ -1735,9 +1735,16 @@ static void kvmppc_core_destroy_vm_pr(struct kvm *kvm)
static int kvmppc_core_check_processor_compat_pr(void)
{
/*
- * Disable KVM for Power9 untill the required bits merged.
+ * PR KVM can work on POWER9 inside a guest partition
+ * running in HPT mode. It can't work if we are using
+ * radix translation (because radix provides no way for
+ * a process to have unique translations in quadrant 3)
+ * or in a bare-metal HPT-mode host (because POWER9
+ * uses a modified HPTE format which the PR KVM code
+ * has not been adapted to use).
*/
- if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300))
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300) &&
+ (radix_enabled() || cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_HVMODE)))
return -EIO;
return 0;
}
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