The following patch series adds 3 new tristate capabilities and their associated handling.
A new H-Call is implemented which a guest will use to query the requirement for and availability of workarounds for certain cpu behaviours. Applies on top of David's tree: ppc-for-2.12 The first patch from the previous revision has already been merged: hw/ppc/spapr_caps: Rework spapr_caps to use uint8 internal representation The main changes to V3 are: - Split up the addition of the tristate caps into 5 patches - 1/6 query the caps from the hypervisor and parse the new return format - 2/6 add support for the new caps - 3-5/6 add each of the three new caps - Patch 6/6 Unchanged Suraj Jitindar Singh (6): target/ppc/kvm: Add cap_ppc_safe_[cache/bounds_check/indirect_branch] target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add support for tristate spapr_capabilities target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_cache target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_bounds_check target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_indirect_branch target/ppc/spapr: Add H-Call H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hw/ppc/spapr.c | 6 ++ hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c | 178 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c | 66 +++++++++++++++ include/hw/ppc/spapr.h | 28 ++++++- linux-headers/asm-powerpc/kvm.h | 8 ++ linux-headers/linux/kvm.h | 3 + target/ppc/kvm.c | 58 +++++++++++++ target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h | 18 ++++ 8 files changed, 364 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.13.6
