[PATCH v3 1/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Add PPC_UV config option
Claudio Carvalho
cclaudio at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jun 10 22:18:39 AEST 2019
On 6/7/19 5:11 PM, Leonardo Bras wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 14:36 -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote:
>> From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> CONFIG_PPC_UV adds support for ultravisor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
>> [Update config help and commit message]
>> Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio at linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> index 8c1c636308c8..276c1857c335 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> @@ -439,6 +439,26 @@ config PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
>> ---help---
>> Support user-mode Transactional Memory on POWERPC.
>>
>> +config PPC_UV
>> + bool "Ultravisor support"
>> + depends on KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
>> + select HMM_MIRROR
>> + select HMM
>> + select ZONE_DEVICE
>> + select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER
>> + select DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
>> + select DEVICE_PRIVATE
>> + select MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>> + select MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>> + default n
>> + help
>> + This option paravirtualizes the kernel to run in POWER platforms that
>> + supports the Protected Execution Facility (PEF). In such platforms,
>> + the ultravisor firmware runs at a privilege level above the
>> + hypervisor.
>> +
>> + If unsure, say "N".
>> +
>> config LD_HEAD_STUB_CATCH
>> bool "Reserve 256 bytes to cope with linker stubs in HEAD text" if EXPERT
>> depends on PPC64
> Maybe this patch should be the last of the series, as it may cause some
> bisect trouble to have this option enabled while missing some of the
> patches.
Thanks Leonardo. I changed that for the next version.
Claudio
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