2016-11-29 09:53+1100, Paul Mackerras: > Paolo, > > Please do a pull from my kvm-ppc-next branch to get a PPC KVM update > for 4.10. This includes some changes to arch/powerpc which Michael > Ellerman put into a topic branch in his powerpc tree (topic/ppc-kvm) > which I have pulled into my kvm-ppc-next branch and which Michael will > pull into his next branch. > > The changes this time are: > > * Support for KVM guests on POWER9 using the hashed page table MMU. > * Updates and improvements to the halt-polling support on PPC, from > Suraj Jitindar Singh. > * An optimization to speed up emulated MMIO, from Yongji Xie. > * Various other minor cleanups. > > Suraj's patch set includes some changes to core KVM code which were > posted back in October and didn't attract much comment, so I put them > in. They add some documentation for halt polling and export the > module parameters used to control halt polling. Yes, they look fine, just forgotten. > Full disclosure: after I had pushed out some of the patches for POWER9 > support, I discovered that they broke compilation with some uncommon > configurations (those with HV KVM enabled but in-kernel XICS interrupt > controller emulation disabled, or with SMP disabled). Since my > kvm-ppc-next branch is a non-rebasing branch, I pushed a patch on top > to fix the breakage. So bisection is broken over a span of about 6 > commits for these unusual configurations. If you want me to rebase my > kvm-ppc-next branch to avoid the breakage, let me know and I will do > that. I trust your judgement on severity of the problem. Pulled, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
