[PULL 00/35] KVM: PPC: End-August patch queue

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Wed Sep 1 17:50:03 EST 2010


  On 08/31/2010 05:31 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> This is my local patch queue with stuff that has accumulated over the last
> weeks on KVM for PPC with some last minute fixes, speedups and debugging help
> that I needed for the KVM Forum ;-).
>
> The highlights of this set are:
>
>    - Converted most important debug points to tracepoints
>    - Flush less PTEs (speedup)
>    - Go back to our own hash (less duplicates)
>    - Make SRs guest settable (speedup for 32 bit guests)
>    - Remove r30/r31 restrictions from PV hooks (speedup!)
>    - Fix random breakages
>    - Fix random guest stalls
>    - 440GP host support (Thanks Hollis!)
>    - Reliable interrupt injection
>
> Keep in mind that this is the first version that is stable on PPC32 hosts.
> All versions prior to this could occupy otherwise used segment entries and
> thus crash your machine :-).
>
> It is also the first version that is stable with PPC64 guests, because they
> require more sophisticated interrupt injection logic for which qemu patches
> are also required.
>
> Please pull this tree from:
>
>      git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6.git kvm-ppc-next
>
> Have fun with more accurate, faster and less buggy KVM on PowerPC!

Pulled, thanks.

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