[PATCH v2 13/20] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Page table construction and page faults for radix guests
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jan 31 07:58:57 AEDT 2017
Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org> writes:
> This adds the code to construct the second-level ("partition-scoped" in
> architecturese) page tables for guests using the radix MMU. Apart from
> the PGD level, which is allocated when the guest is created, the rest
> of the tree is all constructed in response to hypervisor page faults.
>
> As well as hypervisor page faults for missing pages, we also get faults
> for reference/change (RC) bits needing to be set, as well as various
> other error conditions. For now, we only set the R or C bit in the
> guest page table if the same bit is set in the host PTE for the
> backing page.
>
> This code can take advantage of the guest being backed with either
> transparent or ordinary 2MB huge pages, and insert 2MB page entries
> into the guest page tables. There is no support for 1GB huge pages
> yet.
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s.h | 8 +
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 7 +-
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c | 385 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 17 +-
> 5 files changed, 415 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
You didn't sign-off this patch. I assume that's just an accident and
will add it?
cheers
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