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Alexander Graf	666e7252a1	KVM: PPC: Convert MSR to shared page One of the most obvious registers to share with the guest directly is the MSR. The MSR contains the "interrupts enabled" flag which the guest has to toggle in critical sections. So in order to bring the overhead of interrupt en- and disabling down, let's put msr into the shared page. Keep in mind that even though you can fully read its contents, writing to it doesn't always update all state. There are a few safe fields that don't require hypervisor interaction. See the documentation for a list of MSR bits that are safe to be set from inside the guest. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>	2010-10-24 10:50:43 +02:00
Alexander Graf	96bc451a15	KVM: PPC: Introduce shared page For transparent variable sharing between the hypervisor and guest, I introduce a shared page. This shared page will contain all the registers the guest can read and write safely without exiting guest context. This patch only implements the stubs required for the basic structure of the shared page. The actual register moving follows. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>	2010-10-24 10:50:42 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell	b8b572e101	powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>	2008-08-04 12:02:00 +10:00

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Alexander Graf

666e7252a1

KVM: PPC: Convert MSR to shared page

One of the most obvious registers to share with the guest directly is the
MSR. The MSR contains the "interrupts enabled" flag which the guest has to
toggle in critical sections.

So in order to bring the overhead of interrupt en- and disabling down, let's
put msr into the shared page. Keep in mind that even though you can fully read
its contents, writing to it doesn't always update all state. There are a few
safe fields that don't require hypervisor interaction. See the documentation
for a list of MSR bits that are safe to be set from inside the guest.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

2010-10-24 10:50:43 +02:00

Alexander Graf

96bc451a15

KVM: PPC: Introduce shared page

For transparent variable sharing between the hypervisor and guest, I introduce
a shared page. This shared page will contain all the registers the guest can
read and write safely without exiting guest context.

This patch only implements the stubs required for the basic structure of the
shared page. The actual register moving follows.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

2010-10-24 10:50:42 +02:00

Stephen Rothwell

b8b572e101

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

2008-08-04 12:02:00 +10:00

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