linux/arch/powerpc
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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boot powerpc/p1022ds: fix audio-related properties in the device tree 2011-06-22 06:14:54 -05:00
configs powerpc/pseries: remove duplicate SCSI_BNX2_ISCSI in pseries_defconfig 2011-06-29 09:28:52 +10:00
include/asm KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors 2011-07-12 13:16:59 +03:00
kernel KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors 2011-07-12 13:16:59 +03:00
kvm KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors 2011-07-12 13:16:59 +03:00
lib Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-05-20 13:28:01 -07:00
math-emu powerpc/85xx: Fix SPE float to integer conversion failure 2011-03-15 13:48:15 -05:00
mm KVM: PPC: book3s_hv: Add support for PPC970-family processors 2011-07-12 13:16:59 +03:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing 2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
platforms powerpc, KVM: Rework KVM checks in first-level interrupt handlers 2011-07-12 13:16:48 +03:00
sysdev KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modes 2011-07-12 13:16:57 +03:00
xmon powerpc: Remove call sites of MSG_ALL_BUT_SELF 2011-05-19 14:30:46 +10:00
Kconfig arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
Kconfig.debug lib: consolidate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE option 2011-05-25 08:39:54 -07:00
Makefile powerpc: Fix typo in uImage target 2010-08-24 15:26:32 +10:00
relocs_check.pl