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* [PATCHv2 00/11] KVM implementation of PAPR HPT resizing extension
@ 2016-12-20  5:48 David Gibson
  2016-12-20  5:48 ` [PATCHv2 01/11] Documentation: Correct duplicate section number in kvm/api.txt David Gibson
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From: David Gibson @ 2016-12-20  5:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: paulus, sjitindarsingh
  Cc: benh, thuth, lvivier, linuxppc-dev, kvm, linux-kernel, David Gibson

Here is the KVM implementation for the proposed PAPR extension which
allows the runtime resizing of a PAPR guest's Hashed Page Table (HPT).

Using this requires a guest kernel with support for the extension.
Patches for guest side support in Linux were posted earlier:
  https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-December/152164.html

It also requires userspace (i.e. qemu) to intercept the HPT resizing
hypercalls and invoke the KVM ioctl()s to implement them.  This is
done instead of having KVM direclty intercept the hypercalls, so that
userspace can, if useful, impose additional restrictions on resizes:
for example it could refuse them entirely if policy for the VM
precludes resizing, or it could limit the size of HPT the guest can
request to meet resource limits.

Patches to implement the userspace part of HPT resizing are proposed
for qemu-2.9, and can be found at:
  https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/tree/hpt-resize

I'm posting these now, in the hopes that both these and the
corresponding guest side patches can be staged and merged for the 4.11
window.

Changes in v2:
  * Use a more normal and straightforward encoding of the capability
    flags
  * Add information to Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
  * Assorted minor cleanups based on review comments

David Gibson (11):
  Documentation: Correct duplicate section number in kvm/api.txt
  powerpc/kvm: HPT resizing documentation and reserved numbers
  powerpc/kvm: Rename kvm_alloc_hpt() for clarity
  powerpc/kvm: Gather HPT related variables into sub-structure
  powerpc/kvm: Don't store values derivable from HPT order
  powerpc/kvm: Split HPT allocation from activation
  powerpc/kvm: Allow KVM_PPC_ALLOCATE_HTAB ioctl() to change HPT size
  powerpc/kvm: Create kvmppc_unmap_hpte_helper()
  powerpc/kvm: Outline of KVM-HV HPT resizing implementation
  powerpc/kvm: KVM-HV HPT resizing implementation
  powerpc/kvm: Advertise availablity of HPT resizing on KVM HV

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt        | 111 +++++-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h |  16 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |  21 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h       |  15 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c      | 625 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c             |  50 ++-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c     |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c      |  62 +--
 arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c               |   3 +
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                 |  11 +
 10 files changed, 741 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)

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2.9.3

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2016-12-20  5:48 ` [PATCHv2 02/11] powerpc/kvm: HPT resizing documentation and reserved numbers David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:48 ` [PATCHv2 03/11] powerpc/kvm: Rename kvm_alloc_hpt() for clarity David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 04/11] powerpc/kvm: Gather HPT related variables into sub-structure David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 05/11] powerpc/kvm: Don't store values derivable from HPT order David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 06/11] powerpc/kvm: Split HPT allocation from activation David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 07/11] powerpc/kvm: Allow KVM_PPC_ALLOCATE_HTAB ioctl() to change HPT size David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 08/11] powerpc/kvm: Create kvmppc_unmap_hpte_helper() David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 09/11] powerpc/kvm: Outline of KVM-HV HPT resizing implementation David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 10/11] powerpc/kvm: " David Gibson
2016-12-20  5:49 ` [PATCHv2 11/11] powerpc/kvm: Advertise availablity of HPT resizing on KVM HV David Gibson
2017-01-31 22:18 ` [PATCHv2 00/11] KVM implementation of PAPR HPT resizing extension Paul Mackerras
2017-02-01  4:56   ` David Gibson
2017-02-01  5:07     ` Paul Mackerras

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