linux/arch
Paul Mackerras 9e368f2915 KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors
This adds support for running KVM guests in supervisor mode on those
PPC970 processors that have a usable hypervisor mode.  Unfortunately,
Apple G5 machines have supervisor mode disabled (MSR[HV] is forced to
1), but the YDL PowerStation does have a usable hypervisor mode.

There are several differences between the PPC970 and POWER7 in how
guests are managed.  These differences are accommodated using the
CPU_FTR_ARCH_201 (PPC970) and CPU_FTR_ARCH_206 (POWER7) CPU feature
bits.  Notably, on PPC970:

* The LPCR, LPID or RMOR registers don't exist, and the functions of
  those registers are provided by bits in HID4 and one bit in HID0.

* External interrupts can be directed to the hypervisor, but unlike
  POWER7 they are masked by MSR[EE] in non-hypervisor modes and use
  SRR0/1 not HSRR0/1.

* There is no virtual RMA (VRMA) mode; the guest must use an RMO
  (real mode offset) area.

* The TLB entries are not tagged with the LPID, so it is necessary to
  flush the whole TLB on partition switch.  Furthermore, when switching
  partitions we have to ensure that no other CPU is executing the tlbie
  or tlbsync instructions in either the old or the new partition,
  otherwise undefined behaviour can occur.

* The PMU has 8 counters (PMC registers) rather than 6.

* The DSCR, PURR, SPURR, AMR, AMOR, UAMOR registers don't exist.

* The SLB has 64 entries rather than 32.

* There is no mediated external interrupt facility, so if we switch to
  a guest that has a virtual external interrupt pending but the guest
  has MSR[EE] = 0, we have to arrange to have an interrupt pending for
  it so that we can get control back once it re-enables interrupts.  We
  do that by sending ourselves an IPI with smp_send_reschedule after
  hard-disabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:59 +03:00
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alpha Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'at91/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-2.6-arm-soc 2011-07-04 15:54:18 -07:00
avr32 rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
blackfin rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] wire up sendmmsg() syscall for Itanium 2011-05-31 10:09:24 -07:00
m32r Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
m68k m68k: use kernel processor defines for conditional optimizations 2011-06-14 11:42:29 +10:00
microblaze Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
mips rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
mn10300 MN10300: asm/uaccess.h needs to #include linux/kernel.h for might_sleep() 2011-06-21 18:31:44 -07:00
parisc Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
powerpc KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors 2011-07-12 13:16:59 +03:00
s390 [S390] allow setting of upper 32 bit in smp_ctl_set_bit 2011-06-22 16:24:20 +02:00
score arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x 2011-06-30 10:43:22 -07:00
sparc Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
tile Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
um um: add asm/percpu.h 2011-06-27 18:00:12 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: using generic-y format for one line asm-generic files 2011-06-09 16:29:52 +08:00
x86 KVM: MMU: Introduce is_last_gpte() to clean up walk_addr_generic() 2011-07-12 13:16:44 +03:00
xtensa Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00