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This introduces the H_GET_TCE hypervisor call, which is basically the
reverse of H_PUT_TCE, as defined in the Power Architecture Platform
Requirements (PAPR).
The hcall H_GET_TCE is required by the kdump kernel, which uses it to
retrieve TCEs set up by the previous (panicked) kernel.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Since the code in book3s_64_vio_hv.c is called from real mode with HV
KVM, and therefore has to be built into the main kernel binary, this
makes it always built-in rather than part of the KVM module. It gets
called from the KVM module by PR KVM, so this adds an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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There is nothing in the code for emulating TCE tables in the kernel
that prevents it from working on "PR" KVM... other than ifdef's and
location of the code.
This and moves the bulk of the code there to a new file called
book3s_64_vio.c.
This speeds things up a bit on my G5.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[agraf: fix for hv kvm, 32bit, whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR
paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by
implementing it in real mode. H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual
IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the
PAPR interface.
Since this moves the IOMMU tables into the kernel, we define a new
KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE ioctl to allow qemu to create the tables. The
ioctl returns a file descriptor which can be used to mmap the newly
created table. The qemu driver models use them in the same way as
userspace managed tables, but they can be updated directly by the
guest with a real-mode H_PUT_TCE implementation, reducing the number
of host/guest context switches during guest IO.
There are certain circumstances where it is useful for userland qemu
to write to the TCE table even if the kernel H_PUT_TCE path is used
most of the time. Specifically, allowing this will avoid awkwardness
when we need to reset the table. More importantly, we will in the
future need to write the table in order to restore its state after a
checkpoint resume or migration.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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