On 11.05.2011, at 12:34, Paul Mackerras wrote: > The following series of patches enable KVM to exploit the hardware > hypervisor mode on 64-bit Power ISA Book3S machines. At present only > POWER7 is supported, but it would be easy to add other processors. > > Running the KVM host in hypervisor mode means that the guest can use > both supervisor mode and user mode. That means that the guest can > execute supervisor-privilege instructions and access supervisor- > privilege registers. In addition the hardware directs most exceptions > to the guest. Thus we don't need to emulate any instructions in the > host. Generally, the only times we need to exit the guest are when it > does a hypercall or when an external interrupt or host timer > (decrementer) interrupt occurs. > > The focus of this KVM implementation is to run guests that use the > PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) paravirtualization > interface, which is the interface supplied by PowerVM on IBM pSeries > machines. > > These patches are against Ben Herrenschmidt's next branch in his tree > at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git. Very nice patches indeed :). Is there any way I can test them? I don't like pulling code that I couldn't run anywhere yet. Alex -- 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
