On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 06:31:45PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > When running a PAPR guest, we need to handle a few hypercalls in kernel space, > most prominently the page table invalidation (to sync the shadows). > > So this patch adds handling for a few PAPR hypercalls to PR mode KVM. I tried > to share the code with HV mode, but it ended up being a lot easier this way > around, as the two differ too much in those details. Are these strictly necessary, or just an optimization? Because you're using the space allocated by qemu for the guest hash table, it seems to be you could just let h_enter fall through to qemu which will put the right thing into the guest hash table which you can then walk in the kernel translation code. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson -- 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
