Re: [PATCH 40/50] KVM: PPC: Implement MMU notifiers for Book3S HV guests

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On 01/08/2012 05:15 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 08.01.2012, at 14:29, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> > On 01/04/2012 03:10 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> This adds the infrastructure to enable us to page out pages underneath
> >> a Book3S HV guest, on processors that support virtualized partition
> >> memory, that is, POWER7.  Instead of pinning all the guest's pages,
> >> we now look in the host userspace Linux page tables to find the
> >> mapping for a given guest page.  Then, if the userspace Linux PTE
> >> gets invalidated, kvm_unmap_hva() gets called for that address, and
> >> we replace all the guest HPTEs that refer to that page with absent
> >> HPTEs, i.e. ones with the valid bit clear and the HPTE_V_ABSENT bit
> >> set, which will cause an HDSI when the guest tries to access them.
> >> Finally, the page fault handler is extended to reinstantiate the
> >> guest HPTE when the guest tries to access a page which has been paged
> >> out.
> > 
> > Yay!
>
> Half-yay, yes :). It does not work on 970, so we still have a target that doesn't support it.

It's okay not to support some features for older cpus.  Is the 970 even
interesting from a virt perspective?

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