linux/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
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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#
# KVM configuration
#
source "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
---help---
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
disabled.
if VIRTUALIZATION
config KVM
bool
select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
select ANON_INODES
config KVM_BOOK3S_HANDLER
bool
config KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER
bool
select KVM_BOOK3S_HANDLER
select KVM_MMIO
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HANDLER
bool
select KVM_BOOK3S_HANDLER
config KVM_BOOK3S_PR
bool
select KVM_MMIO
config KVM_BOOK3S_32
tristate "KVM support for PowerPC book3s_32 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPC_BOOK3S_32 && !SMP && !PTE_64BIT
select KVM
select KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_32 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_BOOK3S_64
tristate "KVM support for PowerPC book3s_64 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPC_BOOK3S_64
select KVM_BOOK3S_64_HANDLER
select KVM
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_64 and book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_64 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
bool "KVM support for POWER7 and PPC970 using hypervisor mode in host"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_64 guest kernels in
virtual machines on POWER7 and PPC970 processors that have
hypervisor mode available to the host.
If you say Y here, KVM will use the hardware virtualization
facilities of POWER7 (and later) processors, meaning that
guest operating systems will run at full hardware speed
using supervisor and user modes. However, this also means
that KVM is not usable under PowerVM (pHyp), is only usable
on POWER7 (or later) processors and PPC970-family processors,
and cannot emulate a different processor from the host processor.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_PR
def_bool y
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64 && !KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR
config KVM_440
bool "KVM support for PowerPC 440 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && 44x
select KVM
select KVM_MMIO
---help---
Support running unmodified 440 guest kernels in virtual machines on
440 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed exit timing"
depends on KVM_440 || KVM_E500
---help---
Calculate elapsed time for every exit/enter cycle. A per-vcpu
report is available in debugfs kvm/vm#_vcpu#_timing.
The overhead is relatively small, however it is not recommended for
production environments.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_E500
bool "KVM support for PowerPC E500 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && E500
select KVM
select KVM_MMIO
---help---
Support running unmodified E500 guest kernels in virtual machines on
E500 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
source drivers/vhost/Kconfig
source drivers/virtio/Kconfig
endif # VIRTUALIZATION