Re: [PATCH 00/18] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: POWER8 support

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On 08.01.2014, at 11:25, Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series of patches adds support for the new POWER8 processor in
> HV-mode KVM.  The series is based on a merge of Alex Graf's for-3.13
> tree into his kvm-ppc-queue tree, as there are some important bugfixes
> in the for-3.13 tree that touch code that these patches also touch.
> The last patch is actually for PR KVM rather than HV, but is needed
> when running PR KVM inside a HV guest on POWER8.
> 
> These patches do not include support for H_SET_MODE.  It is possible
> to implement H_SET_MODE in userspace by using the one_reg interface to
> set LPCR, CIABR or DAWR/X as appropriate.  Ultimately we want to have
> an in-kernel H_SET_MODE implementation where userspace can ask for
> specific subfunctions to be handled by the kernel, but the details of
> the interface for userspace to do that are still being worked out.
> 
> Please apply and push upstream for inclusion in 3.14.

Thanks, applied all except for 16/18 and 17/18 to kvm-ppc-queue.


Alex

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