This patch series applies on top of my patch series "powerpc: Free up CPU feature bits". POWER9 has some shortcomings in its implementation of transactional memory. Starting with v2.2 of the "Nimbus" chip, some changes have been made to the hardware which make it able to generate hypervisor interrupts in the situations where hardware needs the hypervisor to provide some assistance with the implementation. Specifically, the core does not have enough storage to store a complete checkpoint of all the architected state for all 4 threads, and therefore needs to be able to offload the checkpointed state of threads which are in transactional suspended state (for threads that are in transactional state, the hardware can simply abort the transaction). This series implements the hypervisor assistance for TM for KVM guests, thus allowing them to use TM. This then means that we can allow live migration of guests on POWER8 that may be using TM to POWER9 hosts. This version adds a feature bit for the XER[SO] bug workaround so that it can be turned off on future systems which may still require hypervisor assistance for TM but have the XER[SO] bug fixed. It also makes the test in the idle code (which includes a sync instruction) conditional on the XER[SO] bug feature bit, meaning that the code to force SMT4 mode will only work when that feature bit is set. v2: The end result is the same as v1, but I avoid introducing a compile error in the middle of the series. Paul. arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 3 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h | 7 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 2 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s.h | 4 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h | 43 ++++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_asm.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 3 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/powernv.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 4 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 7 + arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 + arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c | 23 +++- arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c | 5 + arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S | 21 +++ arch/powerpc/kvm/Makefile | 7 + arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 18 ++- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_tm.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_tm_builtin.c | 109 +++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 5 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/idle.c | 81 +++++++++++ 23 files changed, 720 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
