[PATCH 0/3][RFC] kvmppc: paravirtualization interface - guest part v3
ehrhardt at linux.vnet.ibm.com
ehrhardt at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Sep 16 16:27:27 EST 2008
From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Version 3 updates:
- guest hypercall infrastructure is now generic (in epapr_hcalls.h)
while the kvm specific functions stay in kvm_para.h
- the hypercalls now use beat style ABI
- dropped the guest coop patch changing wrteei to wrtee (now mfmsr is
rewritten avoiding side effects and a lot of corner cases. Additionally this
does not need any guest cooperation to be effective)
This patch series implements a paravirtualization interface using:
- the device tree mechanism to pass hypervisor informations to the guest
- hypercalls for guest->host calls
- an example exploiter of that interface (magic page)
The device tree format used here (=base for the discussions on
embedded-hypervisor) is the following.
- A node "hypervisor" to show the general availability of some hypervisor data
- flags for features like the example "feature,pv-magicpage"
setting 1 = available, everything else = unavailable
- Some features might need to pass more data and can use an entry in the
device tree like the example of "data,pv-magicpage-size"
The host side of these patches can be found on kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org
I hope that eventually this guest patch series (that is modifying the ppc boot
process and adding e.g. new ppc fixmaps could go upstream (when discussed
and agreed somewhen) via linuxppc-dev, while the kvm host part will go via
kvm (Avi Kivity).
[patches in series]
[PATCH 1/3] kvmppc: read device tree hypervisor node infrastructure
[PATCH 2/3] kvmppc: add hypercall infrastructure - guest part
[PATCH 3/3] kvmppc: magic page paravirtualization - guest part
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[diffstat]
arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 2 +
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c | 3 +
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig | 7 ++++
b/include/asm-powerpc/epapr_hcalls.h | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
b/include/asm-powerpc/fixmap.h | 10 +++++
b/include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h | 26 +++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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