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KVM: PPC: booke: category E.HV (GS-mode) support

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Chips such as e500mc that implement category E.HV in Power ISA 2.06
provide hardware virtualization features, including a new MSR mode for
guest state.  The guest OS can perform many operations without trapping
into the hypervisor, including transitions to and from guest userspace.

Since we can use SRR1[GS] to reliably tell whether an exception came from
guest state, instead of messing around with IVPR, we use DO_KVM similarly
to book3s.

Current issues include:
 - Machine checks from guest state are not routed to the host handler.
 - The guest can cause a host oops by executing an emulated instruction
   in a page that lacks read permission.  Existing e500/4xx support has
   the same problem.

Includes work by Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@freescale.com>,
Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com>, and
Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
[agraf: remove pt_regs usage]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Scott Wood 2011-12-20 15:34:43 +00:00 • committed by Avi Kivity
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