On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 04:34:14PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> I just applied them on top of kvm-ppc-next and started compiling for
> book3s_64_pr=M:
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:314: Error: undefined symbol
> `PACA_KVM_
There are several fields in struct kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu that
temporarily store bits of host state while a guest is running,
rather than anything relating to the particular guest or vcpu.
This splits them out into a new kvmppc_host_state structure and
modifies the definitions in asm-offsets.c t
Scott Wood wrote:
> As for the corruption, could it be degradation from repeated reads of
that
> one page?
Read Disturb. I Did not know SLC did that.
It just takes 10x as long as MLC, on the order of a million reads.
Supposedly erasing the block fixes it.
It is not a permanent damage thing.
I was
From: Dave Carroll
This patch adds a printk companion to replace the udbg progress function
when initmem is freed.
Suggested-by: Milton Miller
Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Dave Carroll
---
[v2] This is a rebase of the original patch to Linus' current tree
arch/power
From: Dave Carroll
The free_initmem function is basically duplicated in mm/init_32,
and init_64, and is moved to the common 32/64-bit mm/mem.c.
All other sections except init were removed in v2.6.15 by
6c45ab992e4299c869fb26427944a8f8ea177024 (powerpc: Remove section
free() and linker script bit
On 18.06.2011, at 10:27, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> The following series of patches enable KVM to exploit the hardware
> hypervisor mode on 64-bit Power ISA Book3S machines. At present,
> POWER7 and PPC970 processors are supported. (Note that the PPC970
> processors in Apple G5 machines don't have
This adds support for running KVM guests in supervisor mode on those
PPC970 processors that have a usable hypervisor mode. Unfortunately,
Apple G5 machines have supervisor mode disabled (MSR[HV] is forced to
1), but the YDL PowerStation does have a usable hypervisor mode.
There are several differ
This replaces the single CPU_FTR_HVMODE_206 bit with two bits, one to
indicate that we have a usable hypervisor mode, and another to indicate
that the processor conforms to PowerISA version 2.06. We also add
another bit to indicate that the processor conforms to ISA version 2.01
and set that for P
This adds infrastructure which will be needed to allow book3s_hv KVM to
run on older POWER processors, including PPC970, which don't support
the Virtual Real Mode Area (VRMA) facility, but only the Real Mode
Offset (RMO) facility. These processors require a physically
contiguous, aligned area of m
This adds the infrastructure for handling PAPR hcalls in the kernel,
either early in the guest exit path while we are still in real mode,
or later once the MMU has been turned back on and we are in the full
kernel context. The advantage of handling hcalls in real mode if
possible is that we avoid
This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one
hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads
per core on POWER7. The host still has to run single-threaded.
This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT
capability. The return value of th
From: David Gibson
This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR
paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by
implementing it in real mode. H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual
IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the
PAPR interf
There are several fields in struct kvmppc_book3s_shadow_vcpu that
temporarily store bits of host state while a guest is running,
rather than anything relating to the particular guest or vcpu.
This splits them out into a new kvmppc_host_state structure and
modifies the definitions in asm-offsets.c t
In hypervisor mode, the LPCR controls several aspects of guest
partitions, including virtual partition memory mode, and also controls
whether the hypervisor decrementer interrupts are enabled. This sets
up LPCR at boot time so that guest partitions will use a virtual real
memory area (VRMA) compos
Instead of doing the kvm_guest_enter/exit() and local_irq_dis/enable()
calls in powerpc.c, this moves them down into the subarch-specific
book3s_pr.c and booke.c. This eliminates an extra local_irq_enable()
call in book3s_pr.c, and will be needed for when we do SMT4 guest
support in the book3s hyp
This arranges for the top-level arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c file to
pass down some of the calls it gets to the lower-level subarchitecture
specific code. The lower-level implementations (in booke.c and book3s.c)
are no-ops. The coming book3s_hv.c will need this.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
---
The following series of patches enable KVM to exploit the hardware
hypervisor mode on 64-bit Power ISA Book3S machines. At present,
POWER7 and PPC970 processors are supported. (Note that the PPC970
processors in Apple G5 machines don't have a usable hypervisor mode
and are not supported by these
Doing so means that we don't have to save the flags anywhere and gets
rid of the last reference to to_book3s(vcpu) in arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c.
Doing so is OK because a program interrupt won't be generated at the
same time as any other synchronous interrupt. If a program interrupt
and an asynchr
Instead of branching out-of-line with the DO_KVM macro to check if we
are in a KVM guest at the time of an interrupt, this moves the KVM
check inline in the first-level interrupt handlers. This speeds up
the non-KVM case and makes sure that none of the interrupt handlers
are missing the check.
Be
This moves the slb field, which represents the state of the emulated
SLB, from the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct to the kvm_vcpu_arch, and the
hpte_hash_[v]pte[_long] fields from kvm_vcpu_arch to kvmppc_vcpu_book3s.
This is in accord with the principle that the kvm_vcpu_arch struct
represents the state
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