From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/26] KVM: PPC: Add Documentation about PV interface
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:34:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C270CFE.2040600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277508314-915-27-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>
On 06/26/2010 02:25 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> We just introduced a new PV interface that screams for documentation. So here
> it is - a shiny new and awesome text file describing the internal works of
> the PPC KVM paravirtual interface.
>
>
> +Querying for existence
> +======================
> +
> +To find out if we're running on KVM or not, we overlay the PVR register. Usually
> +the PVR register contains an id that identifies your CPU type. If, however, you
> +pass KVM_PVR_PARA in the register that you want the PVR result in, the register
> +still contains KVM_PVR_PARA after the mfpvr call.
> +
> + LOAD_REG_IMM(r5, KVM_PVR_PARA)
> + mfpvr r5
> + [r5 still contains KVM_PVR_PARA]
> +
> +Once determined to run under a PV capable KVM, you can now use hypercalls as
> +described below.
>
On x86 we allow host userspace to determine whether the guest sees the
paravirt interface (and what features are exposed). This allows you to
live migrate from a newer host to an older host, by not exposing the
newer features.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-27 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 23:24 [PATCH 00/26] KVM PPC PV framework Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 01/26] KVM: PPC: Introduce shared page Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 12:12 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-29 9:54 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 10:55 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 02/26] KVM: PPC: Convert MSR to " Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 8:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 9:38 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 9:50 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 10:40 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 03/26] KVM: PPC: Convert DSISR " Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 04/26] KVM: PPC: Convert DAR " Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 05/26] KVM: PPC: Convert SRR0 and SRR1 " Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 06/26] KVM: PPC: Convert SPRG[0-4] " Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 07/26] KVM: PPC: Implement hypervisor interface Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 08/26] KVM: PPC: Add PV guest critical sections Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 8:21 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 9:40 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 9:52 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 10:33 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 10:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 11:49 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 11:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 12:06 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 22:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-27 10:03 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 10:35 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 09/26] KVM: PPC: Add PV guest scratch registers Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 8:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 9:41 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 10/26] KVM: PPC: Tell guest about pending interrupts Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:24 ` [PATCH 11/26] KVM: PPC: Make RMO a define Alexander Graf
2010-06-26 16:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-06-27 9:08 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 7:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-06-29 7:39 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 7:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-06-29 8:04 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 12/26] KVM: PPC: First magic page steps Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 8:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 9:44 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 13/26] KVM: PPC: Magic Page Book3s support Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 14/26] KVM: PPC: Magic Page BookE support Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 15/26] KVM: PPC: Expose magic page support to guest Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 16/26] KVM: Move kvm_guest_init out of generic code Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 17/26] KVM: PPC: Generic KVM PV guest support Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 18/26] KVM: PPC: KVM PV guest stubs Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 8:28 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 9:47 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 10:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 10:38 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 22:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-28 4:39 ` Matt Evans
2010-06-28 6:33 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28 8:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28 8:23 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28 8:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 19/26] KVM: PPC: PV instructions to loads and stores Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 20/26] KVM: PPC: PV tlbsync to nop Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 21/26] KVM: PPC: Introduce kvm_tmp framework Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 22/26] KVM: PPC: PV assembler helpers Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 23/26] KVM: PPC: PV mtmsrd L=1 Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 24/26] KVM: PPC: PV mtmsrd L=0 and mtmsr Alexander Graf
2010-06-26 17:03 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-06-27 9:10 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 7:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 25/26] KVM: PPC: PV wrteei Alexander Graf
2010-06-25 23:25 ` [PATCH 26/26] KVM: PPC: Add Documentation about PV interface Alexander Graf
2010-06-27 8:14 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 9:33 ` Alexander Graf
[not found] ` <4C270876.2050806%40redhat.com>
2010-06-28 7:18 ` Milton Miller
2010-06-28 7:49 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28 8:13 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28 8:21 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28 8:32 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-27 8:34 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-06-27 9:49 ` Alexander Graf
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