From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: POWER8 support Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:50:58 +0100 Message-ID: <5E5DA351-171E-4F3B-B2A1-5B7211ED7D77@suse.de> References: <1389176736-26821-1-git-send-email-paulus@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , kvm-ppc To: Paul Mackerras Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1389176736-26821-1-git-send-email-paulus@samba.org> Sender: kvm-ppc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 08.01.2014, at 11:25, Paul Mackerras wrote: > This series of patches adds support for the new POWER8 processor in > HV-mode KVM. The series is based on a merge of Alex Graf's for-3.13 > tree into his kvm-ppc-queue tree, as there are some important bugfixes > in the for-3.13 tree that touch code that these patches also touch. > The last patch is actually for PR KVM rather than HV, but is needed > when running PR KVM inside a HV guest on POWER8. > > These patches do not include support for H_SET_MODE. It is possible > to implement H_SET_MODE in userspace by using the one_reg interface to > set LPCR, CIABR or DAWR/X as appropriate. Ultimately we want to have > an in-kernel H_SET_MODE implementation where userspace can ask for > specific subfunctions to be handled by the kernel, but the details of > the interface for userspace to do that are still being worked out. > > Please apply and push upstream for inclusion in 3.14. Thanks, applied all except for 16/18 and 17/18 to kvm-ppc-queue. Alex From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:50:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: POWER8 support Message-Id: <5E5DA351-171E-4F3B-B2A1-5B7211ED7D77@suse.de> List-Id: References: <1389176736-26821-1-git-send-email-paulus@samba.org> In-Reply-To: <1389176736-26821-1-git-send-email-paulus@samba.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mackerras Cc: kvm-devel , kvm-ppc On 08.01.2014, at 11:25, Paul Mackerras wrote: > This series of patches adds support for the new POWER8 processor in > HV-mode KVM. The series is based on a merge of Alex Graf's for-3.13 > tree into his kvm-ppc-queue tree, as there are some important bugfixes > in the for-3.13 tree that touch code that these patches also touch. > The last patch is actually for PR KVM rather than HV, but is needed > when running PR KVM inside a HV guest on POWER8. > > These patches do not include support for H_SET_MODE. It is possible > to implement H_SET_MODE in userspace by using the one_reg interface to > set LPCR, CIABR or DAWR/X as appropriate. Ultimately we want to have > an in-kernel H_SET_MODE implementation where userspace can ask for > specific subfunctions to be handled by the kernel, but the details of > the interface for userspace to do that are still being worked out. > > Please apply and push upstream for inclusion in 3.14. Thanks, applied all except for 16/18 and 17/18 to kvm-ppc-queue. Alex