[PATCH 1/1] KVM: PPC: Introduce KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM

Sam Bobroff sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com
Wed Jul 6 16:05:54 AEST 2016


Introduce a new KVM capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM, that can be queried to
determine if a PowerPC KVM guest should use HTM (Hardware Transactional
Memory).

This will be used by QEMU to populate the pa-features bits in the
guest's device tree.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
---

 arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 4 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 02416fe..06d79bc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -588,6 +588,10 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 		r = 1;
 		break;
 #endif
+	case KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM:
+		r = cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM)
+		    && is_kvmppc_hv_enabled(kvm);
+		break;
 	default:
 		r = 0;
 		break;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 05ebf47..f421d0e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info {
 #define KVM_CAP_ARM_PMU_V3 126
 #define KVM_CAP_VCPU_ATTRIBUTES 127
 #define KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID 128
+#define KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM 129
 
 #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
 
-- 
2.1.0



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