KVM: PPC: Book3E: Enable e6500 core

Now that AltiVec and hardware thread support is in place enable e6500 core.

Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
index bf8f99f6676a..2fdc8722e324 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
@@ -180,6 +180,16 @@ int kvmppc_core_check_processor_compat(void)
                 r = 0;
         else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e5500") == 0)
                 r = 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
+        /*
+         * Since guests have the priviledge to enable AltiVec, we need AltiVec
+         * support in the host to save/restore their context.
+         * Don't use CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC to identify cores with AltiVec unit
+         * because it's cleared in the absence of CONFIG_ALTIVEC!
+         */
+        else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_name, "e6500") == 0)
+                r = 0;
+#endif
         else
                 r = -ENOTSUPP;