linux_old1/Documentation/virtual/kvm
Paul Mackerras c927013227 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add userspace interfaces for POWER9 MMU
This adds two capabilities and two ioctls to allow userspace to
find out about and configure the POWER9 MMU in a guest.  The two
capabilities tell userspace whether KVM can support a guest using
the radix MMU, or using the hashed page table (HPT) MMU with a
process table and segment tables.  (Note that the MMUs in the
POWER9 processor cores do not use the process and segment tables
when in HPT mode, but the nest MMU does).

The KVM_PPC_CONFIGURE_V3_MMU ioctl allows userspace to specify
whether a guest will use the radix MMU or the HPT MMU, and to
specify the size and location (in guest space) of the process
table.

The KVM_PPC_GET_RMMU_INFO ioctl gives userspace information about
the radix MMU.  It returns a list of supported radix tree geometries
(base page size and number of bits indexed at each level of the
radix tree) and the encoding used to specify the various page
sizes for the TLB invalidate entry instruction.

Initially, both capabilities return 0 and the ioctls return -EINVAL,
until the necessary infrastructure for them to operate correctly
is added.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-01-31 19:11:47 +11:00
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arm arm/arm64: KVM: Add forwarded physical interrupts documentation 2015-10-22 23:01:43 +02:00
devices KVM: arm64: Require in-kernel irqchip for PMU support 2016-09-27 18:57:07 +02:00
00-INDEX KVM: Add halt polling documentation 2016-11-28 11:48:47 +11:00
api.txt KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add userspace interfaces for POWER9 MMU 2017-01-31 19:11:47 +11:00
cpuid.txt Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi 2013-09-24 19:12:16 +02:00
halt-polling.txt KVM: Add halt polling documentation 2016-11-28 11:48:47 +11:00
hypercalls.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00
locking.txt KVM: hyperv: fix locking of struct kvm_hv fields 2016-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
mmu.txt One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic improvement, 2016-03-16 09:55:35 -07:00
msr.txt Documentation/virtual/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check 2016-11-22 12:48:09 +01:00
nested-vmx.txt KVM: nVMX: Documentation 2011-07-12 13:15:22 +03:00
ppc-pv.txt Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm 2015-10-11 15:35:23 -06:00
review-checklist.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
s390-diag.txt KVM: s390: add documentation for diag 501 2014-04-22 13:24:51 +02:00
timekeeping.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00