[PATCH] PPC: Sync guest visible MMU state

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Fri Nov 27 08:56:11 EST 2009


Am 26.11.2009 um 16:24 schrieb Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>:

> Currently userspace has no chance to find out which virtual address  
> space we're
> in and resolve addresses. While that is a big problem for migration,  
> it's also
> unpleasent when debugging, as gdb and the monitor don't work on  
> virtual
> addresses.
>
> This patch exports enough of the MMU segment state to userspace to  
> make
> debugging work and thus also includes the groundwork for migration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
>
> ---
>
> Ben, please take this patch in your tree.
>
> v2 -> v3:
>
>  - don't use anonymous unions/structs
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm.h        |   20 +++++++++++-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h |    1 +
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s.h |    3 ++
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c             |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
> +++++++-
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_emulate.c  |   38 ++++++++++++++---------
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu.c |    2 +
> arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c            |    3 ++
> include/linux/kvm.h                   |    3 ++
> 8 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/ 
> asm/kvm.h
> index c9ca97f..cb6ad08 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm.h
> @@ -46,8 +46,24 @@ struct kvm_regs {
> };
>
> struct kvm_sregs {
> -    __u32 pvr;
> -    char pad[1020];
> +    union {
> +        struct {
> +            __u32 pvr;

Meh this breaks old userspace. Better patch following tomorrow.


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