summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2011-12-12 12:38:05 +0000
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-03-05 14:52:38 +0200
commit342d3db763f2621ed4546ebf8f6c61cb29d7fbdb (patch)
treebc806911dd085905a5a97419fbc4f9fc1eeb142d /arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
parent697d3899dcb4bcd918d060a92db57b794e56b077 (diff)
KVM: PPC: Implement MMU notifiers for Book3S HV guests
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. Since we can't intercept the guest DSI and ISI interrupts on PPC970, we still have to pin all the guest pages on PPC970. We have a new flag, kvm->arch.using_mmu_notifiers, that indicates whether we can page guest pages out. If it is not set, the MMU notifier callbacks do nothing and everything operates as before. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
index 78133deb4b64..8f64709ae331 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ config KVM_BOOK3S_64
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
bool "KVM support for POWER7 and PPC970 using hypervisor mode in host"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64
+ select MMU_NOTIFIER
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_64 guest kernels in
virtual machines on POWER7 and PPC970 processors that have