From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/13] Hypervisor-mode KVM on POWER7
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 20:34:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110511103443.GA2837@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
The following series of patches enable KVM to exploit the hardware
hypervisor mode on 64-bit Power ISA Book3S machines. At present only
POWER7 is supported, but it would be easy to add other processors.
Running the KVM host in hypervisor mode means that the guest can use
both supervisor mode and user mode. That means that the guest can
execute supervisor-privilege instructions and access supervisor-
privilege registers. In addition the hardware directs most exceptions
to the guest. Thus we don't need to emulate any instructions in the
host. Generally, the only times we need to exit the guest are when it
does a hypercall or when an external interrupt or host timer
(decrementer) interrupt occurs.
The focus of this KVM implementation is to run guests that use the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) paravirtualization
interface, which is the interface supplied by PowerVM on IBM pSeries
machines.
These patches are against Ben Herrenschmidt's next branch in his tree
at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git.
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-11 10:34 UTC|newest]
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2011-05-11 10:34 Paul Mackerras [this message]
2011-05-11 10:36 ` [PATCH 01/13] kvm/powerpc: Move fields between struct kvm_vcpu_arch and kvmppc_vcpu_book3s Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:38 ` [PATCH 02/13] kvm/powerpc: Fix kvmppc_core_pending_dec Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:39 ` [PATCH 03/13] kvm/powerpc: Fix the build for 32-bit Book 3S (classic) processors Paul Mackerras
2011-05-12 9:33 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-12 9:33 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-12 11:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-12 11:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-12 11:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-12 11:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-12 11:57 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-12 11:57 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-11 10:40 ` [PATCH 04/13] kvm/powerpc: Split out code from book3s.c into book3s_pr.c Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:41 ` [PATCH 05/13] powerpc, kvm: Rework KVM checks in first-level interrupt handlers Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:42 ` [PATCH 06/13] kvm/powerpc: Deliver program interrupts right away instead of queueing them Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:42 ` [PATCH 07/13] kvm/powerpc: Pass init/destroy vm and prepare/commit memory region ops down Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:43 ` [PATCH 08/13] kvm/powerpc: Move guest enter/exit down into subarch-specific code Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 18:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-05-17 18:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-05-17 18:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-05-17 18:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-05-11 10:44 ` [PATCH 09/13] powerpc: Set up LPCR for running guest partitions Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:44 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode Paul Mackerras
2011-05-12 9:07 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-12 9:07 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-16 1:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-16 1:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-15 21:58 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-15 21:58 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-15 21:58 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-16 5:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-16 5:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in Paul Mackerras
2011-05-16 5:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 10:17 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 10:17 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 10:17 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-27 10:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-27 10:33 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in Paul Mackerras
2011-05-27 10:33 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode Paul Mackerras
2011-05-27 10:43 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-27 10:43 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-27 10:43 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-27 20:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-27 20:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-27 20:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-27 23:19 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-27 23:19 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-27 23:19 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-28 1:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-28 1:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-28 1:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-31 20:26 ` Jimi Xenidis
2011-05-31 20:26 ` Jimi Xenidis
2011-05-31 20:26 ` Jimi Xenidis
2011-05-31 22:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-31 22:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-31 22:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-06-01 5:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-06-01 5:11 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in Paul Mackerras
2011-06-01 5:11 ` [PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 11/13] kvm/powerpc: Handle some PAPR hcalls in the kernel Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 7:54 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 7:54 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 10:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 10:46 ` [PATCH 12/13] kvm/powerpc: Accelerate H_PUT_TCE by implementing it in real mode Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 8:01 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 8:01 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 9:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-17 9:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-17 9:31 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 9:31 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 9:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-17 9:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-17 9:39 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 9:39 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-11 10:46 ` [PATCH 13/13] kvm/powerpc: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 13:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-11 21:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-11 21:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 8:21 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 8:21 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 10:44 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 11:36 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 11:36 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-19 6:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 9:46 ` [PATCH 0/13] Hypervisor-mode KVM on POWER7 Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 9:46 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 11:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-17 11:38 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 11:38 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-17 11:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-17 11:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-19 5:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-19 5:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2011-05-19 6:01 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-19 6:01 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-19 6:01 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-21 16:41 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-21 16:41 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-21 17:00 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-21 17:00 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-21 18:15 ` Alexander Graf
2011-05-21 18:15 ` Alexander Graf
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