[PATCH 00/11] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Support KVM guests on POWER9

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Thu Nov 24 10:03:32 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:31:54AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This series of patches adds support to HV KVM for running KVM guests
> on POWER9 systems.  This allows us to run KVM guests that use HPT
> (hashed page table) address translation and know about the POWER9
> processor.  With suitable changes to the user-mode driver, this can
> also run guests on POWER9 in POWER8 or POWER7 compatibility mode.
> 
> For now we require the host to be in HPT mode (not radix).
> 
> This series of patches is based on the ppc-kvm topic branch from the
> powerpc tree merged with my current kvm-ppc-next tree.

I have pushed the merge plus this series to my kvm-ppc-next branch.

Paul.


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