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Avi Kivity
ca9edaee1a KVM: Consolidate userspace memory capability reporting into common code
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:46 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7b7015914b KVM: ppc: mostly cosmetic updates to the exit timing accounting code
The only significant changes were to kvmppc_exit_timing_write() and
kvmppc_exit_timing_show(), both of which were dramatically simplified.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
73e75b416f KVM: ppc: Implement in-kernel exit timing statistics
Existing KVM statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
KVM generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
For KVM on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
extension this adds too much overhead (at least on embedded PowerPC) slowing
down the workloads we wanted to measure.

Therefore this patch adds a in-kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
.config entry and should be off by default.

Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
merged and simplified together with the exit timing statistic code (still
working with exit timing disabled in .config).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:41 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c5fbdffbda KVM: ppc: save and restore guest mappings on context switch
Store shadow TLB entries in memory, but only use it on host context switch
(instead of every guest entry). This improves performance for most workloads on
440 by reducing the guest TLB miss rate.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
7924bd4109 KVM: ppc: directly insert shadow mappings into the hardware TLB
Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.

Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.

These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).

In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:09 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
891686188f KVM: ppc: support large host pages
KVM on 440 has always been able to handle large guest mappings with 4K host
pages -- we must, since the guest kernel uses 256MB mappings.

This patch makes KVM work when the host has large pages too (tested with 64K).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:55:07 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
fe4e771d5c KVM: ppc: fix userspace mapping invalidation on context switch
We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
ended up using stale mappings.

Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
guest kernel could insert any for process B.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:26 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
df9b856c45 KVM: ppc: use prefetchable mappings for guest memory
Bare metal Linux on 440 can "overmap" RAM in the kernel linear map, so that it
can use large (256MB) mappings even if memory isn't a multiple of 256MB. To
prevent the hardware prefetcher from loading from an invalid physical address
through that mapping, it's marked Guarded.

However, KVM must ensure that all guest mappings are backed by real physical
RAM (since a deliberate access through a guarded mapping could still cause a
machine check). Accordingly, we don't need to make our mappings guarded, so
let's allow prefetching as the designers intended.

Curiously this patch didn't affect performance at all on the quick test I
tried, but it's clearly the right thing to do anyways and may improve other
workloads.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:26 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
bf5d4025c9 KVM: ppc: use MMUCR accessor to obtain TID
We have an accessor; might as well use it.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:25 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
74ef740da6 KVM: ppc: fix Kconfig constraints
Make sure that CONFIG_KVM cannot be selected without processor support
(currently, 440 is the only processor implementation available).

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:25 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
fcfdbd266a KVM: ppc: improve trap emulation
set ESR[PTR] when emulating a guest trap. This allows Linux guests to
properly handle WARN_ON() (i.e. detect that it's a non-fatal trap).

Also remove debugging printk in trap emulation.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:24 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
d4cf3892e5 KVM: ppc: optimize irq delivery path
In kvmppc_deliver_interrupt is just one case left in the switch and it is a
rare one (less than 8%) when looking at the exit numbers. Therefore we can
at least drop the switch/case and if an if. I inserted an unlikely too, but
that's open for discussion.

In kvmppc_can_deliver_interrupt all frequent cases are in the default case.
I know compilers are smart but we can make it easier for them. By writing
down all options and removing the default case combined with the fact that
ithe values are constants 0..15 should allow the compiler to write an easy
jump table.
Modifying kvmppc_can_deliver_interrupt pointed me to the fact that gcc seems
to be unable to reduce priority_exception[x] to a build time constant.
Therefore I changed the usage of the translation arrays in the interrupt
delivery path completely. It is now using priority without translation to irq
on the full irq delivery path.
To be able to do that ivpr regs are stored by their priority now.

Additionally the decision made in kvmppc_can_deliver_interrupt is already
sufficient to get the value of interrupt_msr_mask[x]. Therefore we can replace
the 16x4byte array used here with a single 4byte variable (might still be one
miss, but the chance to find this in cache should be better than the right
entry of the whole array).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:23 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
9ab80843c0 KVM: ppc: optimize find first bit
Since we use a unsigned long here anyway we can use the optimized __ffs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:23 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
1b6766c7f3 KVM: ppc: optimize kvm stat handling
Currently we use an unnecessary if&switch to detect some cases.
To be honest we don't need the ligh_exits counter anyway, because we can
calculate it out of others. Sum_exits can also be calculated, so we can
remove that too.
MMIO, DCR  and INTR can be counted on other places without these
additional control structures (The INTR case was never hit anyway).

The handling of BOOKE_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL/BOOKE_INTERRUPT_DECREMENTER is
similar, but we can avoid the additional if when copying 3 lines of code.
I thought about a goto there to prevent duplicate lines, but rewriting three
lines should be better style than a goto cross switch/case statements (its
also not enough code to justify a new inline function).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:23 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
b8fd68ac8d KVM: ppc: fix set regs to take care of msr change
When changing some msr bits e.g. problem state we need to take special
care of that. We call the function in our mtmsr emulation (not needed for
wrtee[i]), but we don't call kvmppc_set_msr if we change msr via set_regs
ioctl.
It's a corner case we never hit so far, but I assume it should be
kvmppc_set_msr in our arch set regs function (I found it because it is also
a corner case when using pv support which would miss the update otherwise).

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:23 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
5cf8ca2214 KVM: ppc: adjust vcpu types to support 64-bit cores
However, some of these fields could be split into separate per-core structures
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:22 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
db93f5745d KVM: ppc: create struct kvm_vcpu_44x and introduce container_of() accessor
This patch doesn't yet move all 44x-specific data into the new structure, but
is the first step down that path. In the future we may also want to create a
struct kvm_vcpu_booke.

Based on patch from Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:22 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
5cbb5106f5 KVM: ppc: Move the last bits of 44x code out of booke.c
Needed to port to other Book E processors.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:22 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
75f74f0dbe KVM: ppc: refactor instruction emulation into generic and core-specific pieces
Cores provide 3 emulation hooks, implemented for example in the new
4xx_emulate.c:
kvmppc_core_emulate_op
kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr
kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr

Strictly speaking the last two aren't necessary, but provide for more
informative error reporting ("unknown SPR").

Long term I'd like to have instruction decoding autogenerated from tables of
opcodes, and that way we could aggregate universal, Book E, and core-specific
instructions more easily and without redundant switch statements.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:21 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
c381a04313 ppc: Create disassemble.h to extract instruction fields
This is used in a couple places in KVM, but isn't KVM-specific.

However, this patch doesn't modify other in-kernel emulation code:
- xmon uses a direct copy of ppc_opc.c from binutils
- emulate_instruction() doesn't need it because it can use a series
  of mask tests.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:21 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
9dd921cfea KVM: ppc: Refactor powerpc.c to relocate 440-specific code
This introduces a set of core-provided hooks. For 440, some of these are
implemented by booke.c, with the rest in (the new) 44x.c.

Note that these hooks are link-time, not run-time. Since it is not possible to
build a single kernel for both e500 and 440 (for example), using function
pointers would only add overhead.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:21 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
d9fbd03d24 KVM: ppc: combine booke_guest.c and booke_host.c
The division was somewhat artificial and cumbersome, and had no functional
benefit anyways: we can only guests built for the real host processor.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:50 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
0f55dc481e KVM: ppc: Rename "struct tlbe" to "struct kvmppc_44x_tlbe"
This will ease ports to other cores.

Also remove unused "struct kvm_tlb" while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:50 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
a0d7b9f246 KVM: ppc: Move 440-specific TLB code into 44x_tlb.c
This will make it easier to provide implementations for other cores.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:50 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
fad7b9b51e powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
Commit 2a4aca1144 ("powerpc/mm: Split
low level tlb invalidate for nohash processors") changed a call to
_tlbia to _tlbil_all but didn't include the header that defines
_tlbil_all, leading to a build failure on 440 if KVM is enabled.
This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-23 14:58:30 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2a4aca1144 powerpc/mm: Split low level tlb invalidate for nohash processors
Currently, the various forms of low level TLB invalidations are all
implemented in misc_32.S for 32-bit processors, in a fairly scary
mess of #ifdef's and with interesting duplication such as a whole
bunch of code for FSL _tlbie and _tlbia which are no longer used.

This moves things around such that _tlbie is now defined in
hash_low_32.S and is only used by the 32-bit hash code, and all
nohash CPUs use the various _tlbil_* forms that are now moved to
a new file, tlb_nohash_low.S.

I moved all the definitions for that stuff out of
include/asm/tlbflush.h as they are really internal mm stuff, into
mm/mmu_decl.h

The code should have no functional changes.  I kept some variants
inline for trivial forms on things like 40x and 8xx.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-21 14:21:16 +11:00
Hollis Blanchard
c30f8a6c6d KVM: ppc: stop leaking host memory on VM exit
When the VM exits, we must call put_page() for every page referenced in the
shadow TLB.

Without this patch, we usually leak 30-50 host pages (120 - 200 KiB with 4 KiB
pages). The maximum number of pages leaked is the size of our shadow TLB, 64
pages.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-11-25 12:02:48 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
4c2155ce81 KVM: switch to get_user_pages_fast
Convert gfn_to_pfn to use get_user_pages_fast, which can do lockless
pagetable lookups on x86. Kernel compilation on 4-way guest is 3.7%
faster on VMX.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:06 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
0bd595fc22 KVM: ppc: kvmppc_44x_shadow_release() does not require mmap_sem to be locked
And it gets in the way of get_user_pages_fast().

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:26 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
49dd2c4928 KVM: powerpc: Map guest userspace with TID=0 mappings
When we use TID=N userspace mappings, we must ensure that kernel mappings have
been destroyed when entering userspace. Using TID=1/TID=0 for kernel/user
mappings and running userspace with PID=0 means that userspace can't access the
kernel mappings, but the kernel can directly access userspace.

The net is that we don't need to flush the TLB on privilege switches, but we do
on guest context switches (which are far more infrequent). Guest boot time
performance improvement: about 30%.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:16 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
83aae4a809 KVM: ppc: Write only modified shadow entries into the TLB on exit
Track which TLB entries need to be written, instead of overwriting everything
below the high water mark. Typically only a single guest TLB entry will be
modified in a single exit.

Guest boot time performance improvement: about 15%.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:16 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
20754c2495 KVM: ppc: Stop saving host TLB state
We're saving the host TLB state to memory on every exit, but never using it.
Originally I had thought that we'd want to restore host TLB for heavyweight
exits, but that could actually hurt when context switching to an unrelated host
process (i.e. not qemu).

Since this decreases the performance penalty of all exits, this patch improves
guest boot time by about 15%.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:16 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
6a0ab738ef KVM: ppc: guest breakpoint support
Allow host userspace to program hardware debug registers to set breakpoints
inside guests.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:16 +02:00
Christian Ehrhardt
3b4bd7969f KVM: ppc: trace powerpc instruction emulation
This patch adds a trace point for the instruction emulation on embedded powerpc
utilizing the KVM_TRACE interface.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:15 +02:00
Jerone Young
31711f2294 KVM: ppc: adds trace points for ppc tlb activity
This patch adds trace points to track powerpc TLB activities using the
KVM_TRACE infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:15 +02:00
Jerone Young
12f6755602 KVM: ppc: enable KVM_TRACE building for powerpc
This patch enables KVM_TRACE to build for PowerPC arch. This means just
adding sections to Kconfig and Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:15 +02:00
Hollis Blanchard
cc04454fa8 KVM: ppc: fix invalidation of large guest pages
When guest invalidates a large tlb map, there may be more than one
corresponding shadow tlb maps that need to be invalidated. Use eaddr and eend
to find these shadow tlb maps.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-27 12:02:05 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
34d4cb8fca KVM: MMU: nuke shadowed pgtable pages and ptes on memslot destruction
Flush the shadow mmu before removing regions to avoid stale entries.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:40 +03:00
Laurent Vivier
588968b6b7 KVM: Add coalesced MMIO support (powerpc part)
This patch enables coalesced MMIO for powerpc architecture.
It defines KVM_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET and KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO.
It enables the compilation of coalesced_mmio.c.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:31 +03:00
Avi Kivity
7cc8883074 KVM: Remove decache_vcpus_on_cpu() and related callbacks
Obsoleted by the vmx-specific per-cpu list.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:25 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
9dcb40e1aa KVM: ppc: Report bad GFNs
This code shouldn't be hit anyways, but when it is, it's useful to have a
little more information about the failure.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-06 21:22:41 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
905fa4b9d6 KVM: ppc: Use a read lock around MMU operations, and release it on error
gfn_to_page() and kvm_release_page_clean() are called from other contexts with
mmap_sem locked only for reading.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-06 21:22:33 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
52435b7c7a KVM: ppc: Remove unmatched kunmap() call
We're not calling kmap() now, so we shouldn't call kunmap() either. This has no
practical effect in the non-highmem case, which is why it hasn't caused more
obvious problems.

Pointed out by Anthony Liguori.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-06 21:22:25 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
ac3cd34e4e KVM: ppc: add lwzx/stwz emulation
Somehow these load/store instructions got missed before, but weren't used by
the guest so didn't break anything.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-06 21:22:17 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
ce263d70e5 KVM: ppc: Remove duplicate function
This was left behind from some code movement.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-06-06 21:22:09 +03:00
Christian Ehrhardt
de368dceb3 KVM: ppc: deliver INTERRUPT_FP_UNAVAIL to the guest
This patch adds the delivery of INTERRUPT_FP_UNAVAIL exceptions to the guest.
It's needed if a guest uses ppc binaries using the Floating point instructions.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-05-04 14:44:45 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
45c5eb67da KVM: ppc: Handle guest idle by emulating MSR[WE] writes
This reduces host CPU usage when the guest is idle. However, the guest must
set MSR[WE] in its idle loop, which Linux did not do until 2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-05-04 14:44:44 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
bbf45ba57e KVM: ppc: PowerPC 440 KVM implementation
This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running
unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only
tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace
support other SoC/board combinations should work.)

See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details.

[stephen: build fix]

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 18:21:39 +03:00