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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2011-09-29 21:39:11 +0000
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2011-10-30 17:11:53 +0100
commit354ac20a36a82a5ee09b0a6c8ba8655358a7597f (patch)
tree1728b384c00b412a329179b72fc5f3bc69c90e06 /target-alpha
parente97c363638b32943afc4bd2845f4081496fabfbc (diff)
pseries: Allow KVM Book3S-HV on PPC970 CPUS
At present, using the hypervisor aware Book3S-HV KVM will only work with qemu on POWER7 CPUs. PPC970 CPUs also have hypervisor capability, but they lack the VRMA feature which makes assigning guest memory easier. In order to allow KVM Book3S-HV on PPC970, we need to specially allocate the first chunk of guest memory (the "Real Mode Area" or RMA), so that it is physically contiguous. Sufficiently recent host kernels allow such contiguous RMAs to be allocated, with a kvm capability advertising whether the feature is available and/or necessary on this hardware. This patch enables qemu to use this support, thus allowing kvm acceleration of pseries qemu machines on PPC970 hardware. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> --- agraf: fix to use memory api
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