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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-24 23:01:20 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-24 23:01:20 +0400
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Merge tag 'kvm-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity: "Highlights include - full big real mode emulation on pre-Westmere Intel hosts (can be disabled with emulate_invalid_guest_state=0) - relatively small ppc and s390 updates - PCID/INVPCID support in guests - EOI avoidance; 3.6 guests should perform better on 3.6 hosts on interrupt intensive workloads) - Lockless write faults during live migration - EPT accessed/dirty bits support for new Intel processors" Fix up conflicts in: - Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt: Stupid subchapter numbering, added next to each other. - arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S: PPC asm changes clashing with the KVM fixes - arch/s390/include/asm/sigp.h, arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c: Duplicated commits through the kvm tree and the s390 tree, with subsequent edits in the KVM tree. * tag 'kvm-3.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (93 commits) KVM: fix race with level interrupts x86, hyper: fix build with !CONFIG_KVM_GUEST Revert "apic: fix kvm build on UP without IOAPIC" KVM guest: switch to apic_set_eoi_write, apic_write apic: add apic_set_eoi_write for PV use KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT KVM: Add x86_hyper_kvm to complete detect_hypervisor_platform check KVM: PPC: Critical interrupt emulation support KVM: PPC: e500mc: Fix tlbilx emulation for 64-bit guests KVM: PPC64: booke: Set interrupt computation mode for 64-bit host KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add ESR flag to Data Storage Interrupt KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for std/ld emulation. booke: Added crit/mc exception handler for e500v2 booke/bookehv: Add host crit-watchdog exception support KVM: MMU: document mmu-lock and fast page fault KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_pagetable_walk tracepoint KVM: MMU: trace fast page fault KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault KVM: MMU: introduce SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE bit KVM: MMU: fold tlb flush judgement into mmu_spte_update ...
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@@ -1946,6 +1946,40 @@ the guest using the specified gsi pin. The irqfd is removed using
the KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN flag, specifying both kvm_irqfd.fd
and kvm_irqfd.gsi.
+4.76 KVM_PPC_ALLOCATE_HTAB
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_ALLOC_HTAB
+Architectures: powerpc
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: Pointer to u32 containing hash table order (in/out)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+This requests the host kernel to allocate an MMU hash table for a
+guest using the PAPR paravirtualization interface. This only does
+anything if the kernel is configured to use the Book 3S HV style of
+virtualization. Otherwise the capability doesn't exist and the ioctl
+returns an ENOTTY error. The rest of this description assumes Book 3S
+HV.
+
+There must be no vcpus running when this ioctl is called; if there
+are, it will do nothing and return an EBUSY error.
+
+The parameter is a pointer to a 32-bit unsigned integer variable
+containing the order (log base 2) of the desired size of the hash
+table, which must be between 18 and 46. On successful return from the
+ioctl, it will have been updated with the order of the hash table that
+was allocated.
+
+If no hash table has been allocated when any vcpu is asked to run
+(with the KVM_RUN ioctl), the host kernel will allocate a
+default-sized hash table (16 MB).
+
+If this ioctl is called when a hash table has already been allocated,
+the kernel will clear out the existing hash table (zero all HPTEs) and
+return the hash table order in the parameter. (If the guest is using
+the virtualized real-mode area (VRMA) facility, the kernel will
+re-create the VMRA HPTEs on the next KVM_RUN of any vcpu.)
+
5. The kvm_run structure
------------------------