[PATCH 00/15] Support POWER8 and little-endian guests in HV KVM

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This patch series adds basic POWER8 support and support for
little-endian guests to HV KVM.  The last patch implements support for
the H_SET_XDABR hcall for POWER7 guests.  The series is against the
'next' branch of the kvm tree as of a couple of days ago, plus the two
bug-fix patches I posted recently ("Fix physical address calculations"
and "Refine barriers in guest entry/exit").

POWER8 adds several new guest-accessible instructions, special-purpose
registers, and other features such as doorbell interrupts and hardware
transactional memory.  It also adds new hypervisor-controlled features
such as relocation-on interrupts, and replaces the DABR/DABRX
registers with the new DAWR/DAWRX registers with expanded
capabilities.  The POWER8 CPU has compatibility modes for architecture
2.06 (POWER7/POWER7+) and 2.05 (POWER6).

This series does not include the support for saving and restoring the
transactional checkpointed state of the guest.  For that, I need Ben's
for-kvm branch to be merged to bring in the "powerpc: Put FP/VSX and
VR state into structures" patch.

Paul.
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 Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt         |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h         |   6 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h        |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_asm.h |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h       |  31 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h        |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h            |  44 ++-
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h       |   3 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c         |  30 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c       |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c              | 342 ++++++++++++++++--
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_interrupts.S   |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S   | 580 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 13 files changed, 863 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)
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