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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Liu Yu-B13201
2e1ae9c07d KVM: PPC: Factor out guest epapr initialization
epapr paravirtualization support is now a Kconfig
selectable option

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
[stuart.yoder@freescale.com: misc minor fixes, description update]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-05-30 11:43:10 +02:00
Timur Tabi
3b588c7efc powerpc/epapr: add "memory" as a clobber to all hypercalls
The "memory" clobber tells the compiler to ensure that all writes to memory
are committed before the hypercall is made.

"memory" is only necessary for hcalls where the Hypervisor will read or
write guest memory. However, we add it to all hcalls because the impact is
minimal, and we want to ensure that it's present for the hcalls that need
it.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-03-29 08:14:14 -05:00
Timur Tabi
bd497fc978 powerpc: introduce ePAPR embedded hypervisor hcall interface
ePAPR hypervisors provide operating system services via a "hypercall"
interface.  The following steps need to be performed to make an hcall:

1. Load r11 with the hcall number
2. Load specific other registers with parameters
3. Issue instrucion "sc 1"
4. The return code is in r3
5. Other returned parameters are in other registers.

To provide this service to the kernel, these steps are wrapped in inline
assembly functions.  Standard ePAPR hcalls are in epapr_hcalls.h, and
Freescale extensions are in fsl_hcalls.h.

Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-06-27 08:30:19 -05:00