Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Use UV_WRITE_PATE ucall to register a PATE

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On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:36:10PM -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote:
> From: Michael Anderson <andmike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When running under an ultravisor, the ultravisor controls the real
> partition table and has it in secure memory where the hypervisor can't
> access it, and therefore we (the HV) have to do a ucall whenever we want
> to update an entry.
> 
> The HV still keeps a copy of its view of the partition table in normal
> memory so that the nest MMU can access it.
> 
> Both partition tables will have PATE entries for HV and normal virtual
> machines.

As discussed before, all of this should depend only on
CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV.

Paul.



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