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author | Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> | 2011-12-20 15:34:43 (GMT) |
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committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2012-04-08 09:51:19 (GMT) |
commit | d30f6e480055e5be12e7a03fd11ea912a451daa5 (patch) | |
tree | e6c367e6f1da4da67b3a395a1a735a09e52067c0 /tools | |
parent | cfac57847a67c4903f34a77e971521531bbc7c77 (diff) | |
download | linux-d30f6e480055e5be12e7a03fd11ea912a451daa5.tar.xz |
KVM: PPC: booke: category E.HV (GS-mode) support
Chips such as e500mc that implement category E.HV in Power ISA 2.06
provide hardware virtualization features, including a new MSR mode for
guest state. The guest OS can perform many operations without trapping
into the hypervisor, including transitions to and from guest userspace.
Since we can use SRR1[GS] to reliably tell whether an exception came from
guest state, instead of messing around with IVPR, we use DO_KVM similarly
to book3s.
Current issues include:
- Machine checks from guest state are not routed to the host handler.
- The guest can cause a host oops by executing an emulated instruction
in a page that lacks read permission. Existing e500/4xx support has
the same problem.
Includes work by Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com>,
Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com>, and
Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
[agraf: remove pt_regs usage]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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