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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h, branch v4.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc: Handle most loads and stores in instruction emulation code</title>
<updated>2017-09-01T06:39:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-30T04:12:27+00:00</published>
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This extends the instruction emulation infrastructure in sstep.c to
handle all the load and store instructions defined in the Power ISA
v3.0, except for the atomic memory operations, ldmx (which was never
implemented), lfdp/stfdp, and the vector element load/stores.

The instructions added are:

Integer loads and stores: lbarx, lharx, lqarx, stbcx., sthcx., stqcx.,
lq, stq.

VSX loads and stores: lxsiwzx, lxsiwax, stxsiwx, lxvx, lxvl, lxvll,
lxvdsx, lxvwsx, stxvx, stxvl, stxvll, lxsspx, lxsdx, stxsspx, stxsdx,
lxvw4x, lxsibzx, lxvh8x, lxsihzx, lxvb16x, stxvw4x, stxsibx, stxvh8x,
stxsihx, stxvb16x, lxsd, lxssp, lxv, stxsd, stxssp, stxv.

These instructions are handled both in the analyse_instr phase and in
the emulate_step phase.

The code for lxvd2ux and stxvd2ux has been taken out, as those
instructions were never implemented in any processor and have been
taken out of the architecture, and their opcodes have been reused for
other instructions in POWER9 (lxvb16x and stxvb16x).

The emulation for the VSX loads and stores uses helper functions
which don't access registers or memory directly, which can hopefully
be reused by KVM later.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This extends the instruction emulation infrastructure in sstep.c to
handle all the load and store instructions defined in the Power ISA
v3.0, except for the atomic memory operations, ldmx (which was never
implemented), lfdp/stfdp, and the vector element load/stores.

The instructions added are:

Integer loads and stores: lbarx, lharx, lqarx, stbcx., sthcx., stqcx.,
lq, stq.

VSX loads and stores: lxsiwzx, lxsiwax, stxsiwx, lxvx, lxvl, lxvll,
lxvdsx, lxvwsx, stxvx, stxvl, stxvll, lxsspx, lxsdx, stxsspx, stxsdx,
lxvw4x, lxsibzx, lxvh8x, lxsihzx, lxvb16x, stxvw4x, stxsibx, stxvh8x,
stxsihx, stxvb16x, lxsd, lxssp, lxv, stxsd, stxssp, stxv.

These instructions are handled both in the analyse_instr phase and in
the emulate_step phase.

The code for lxvd2ux and stxvd2ux has been taken out, as those
instructions were never implemented in any processor and have been
taken out of the architecture, and their opcodes have been reused for
other instructions in POWER9 (lxvb16x and stxvb16x).

The emulation for the VSX loads and stores uses helper functions
which don't access registers or memory directly, which can hopefully
be reused by KVM later.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Correct instruction code for xxlor instruction</title>
<updated>2017-08-31T12:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-30T04:12:24+00:00</published>
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The instruction code for xxlor that commit 0016a4cf5582 ("powerpc:
Emulate most Book I instructions in emulate_step()", 2010-06-15)
added is actually the code for xxlnor.  It is used in get_vsr()
and put_vsr() and the effect of the error is that if emulate_step
is used to emulate a VSX load or store from any register other
than vsr0, the bitwise complement of the correct value will be
loaded or stored.  This corrects the error.

Fixes: 0016a4cf5582 ("powerpc: Emulate most Book I instructions in emulate_step()")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The instruction code for xxlor that commit 0016a4cf5582 ("powerpc:
Emulate most Book I instructions in emulate_step()", 2010-06-15)
added is actually the code for xxlnor.  It is used in get_vsr()
and put_vsr() and the effect of the error is that if emulate_step
is used to emulate a VSX load or store from any register other
than vsr0, the bitwise complement of the correct value will be
loaded or stored.  This corrects the error.

Fixes: 0016a4cf5582 ("powerpc: Emulate most Book I instructions in emulate_step()")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv/vas: Define copy/paste interfaces</title>
<updated>2017-08-31T04:26:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-29T06:23:40+00:00</published>
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Define interfaces (wrappers) to the 'copy' and 'paste'
instructions (which are new in PowerISA 3.0). These are intended to be
used to by NX driver(s) to submit Coprocessor Request Blocks (CRBs) to
the NX hardware engines.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Define interfaces (wrappers) to the 'copy' and 'paste'
instructions (which are new in PowerISA 3.0). These are intended to be
used to by NX driver(s) to submit Coprocessor Request Blocks (CRBs) to
the NX hardware engines.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Use darn instruction for get_random_seed() on Power9</title>
<updated>2017-08-08T09:37:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Brown</name>
<email>matthew.brown.dev@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-04T01:12:18+00:00</published>
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This adds powernv_get_random_darn() which utilises the darn instruction,
introduced in ISA v3.0/POWER9.

The darn instruction can potentially return an error, which is supported
by the get_random_seed() API, in normal usage if we see an error we just
return that to the caller.

However when detecting whether darn is functional at boot we try up to
10 times, before deciding that darn doesn't work and failing the
registration of get_random_seed(). That way an intermittent failure
at boot doesn't deprive the system of randomness until the next reboot.

Signed-off-by: Matt Brown &lt;matthew.brown.dev@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Move init into a function, tweak change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This adds powernv_get_random_darn() which utilises the darn instruction,
introduced in ISA v3.0/POWER9.

The darn instruction can potentially return an error, which is supported
by the get_random_seed() API, in normal usage if we see an error we just
return that to the caller.

However when detecting whether darn is functional at boot we try up to
10 times, before deciding that darn doesn't work and failing the
registration of get_random_seed(). That way an intermittent failure
at boot doesn't deprive the system of randomness until the next reboot.

Signed-off-by: Matt Brown &lt;matthew.brown.dev@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Move init into a function, tweak change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T20:55:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T20:55:45+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs.

   - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board

   - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs.

   - Generic &amp; powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting

   - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface

   - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths

   - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9.

  As well as many other fixes and improvements.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman
  Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter,
  Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier
  Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek,
  Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung
  Bauermann, Yang Li"

* tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
  powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs
  powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix
  powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash
  powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M
  powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction()
  powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon
  powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction()
  powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction()
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors
  powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp()
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap
  powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label
  powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols
  cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL
  powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs.

   - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board

   - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs.

   - Generic &amp; powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting

   - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface

   - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths

   - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9.

  As well as many other fixes and improvements.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman
  Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter,
  Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier
  Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N.
  Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek,
  Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung
  Bauermann, Yang Li"

* tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits)
  powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs
  powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix
  powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash
  powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M
  powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction()
  powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon
  powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction()
  powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction()
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors
  powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp()
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap
  powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE
  powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes
  powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label
  powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols
  cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL
  powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: msgclr when handling doorbell exceptions from system reset</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T09:46:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-13T13:05:48+00:00</published>
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msgsnd doorbell exceptions are cleared when the doorbell interrupt is
taken. However if a doorbell exception causes a system reset interrupt
wake from power saving state, the message is not cleared. Processing
the doorbell from the system reset interrupt requires msgclr to avoid
taking the exception again.

Testing this plus the previous wakup direct patch gives:

                                original         wakeup direct     msgclr
Different threads, same core:   315k/s           264k/s            345k/s
Different cores:                235k/s           242k/s            242k/s

Net speedup is +10% for same core, and +3% for different core.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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msgsnd doorbell exceptions are cleared when the doorbell interrupt is
taken. However if a doorbell exception causes a system reset interrupt
wake from power saving state, the message is not cleared. Processing
the doorbell from the system reset interrupt requires msgclr to avoid
taking the exception again.

Testing this plus the previous wakup direct patch gives:

                                original         wakeup direct     msgclr
Different threads, same core:   315k/s           264k/s            345k/s
Different cores:                235k/s           242k/s            242k/s

Net speedup is +10% for same core, and +3% for different core.

Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Virtualize doorbell facility on POWER9</title>
<updated>2017-06-19T04:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-16T06:41:20+00:00</published>
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On POWER9, we no longer have the restriction that we had on POWER8
where all threads in a core have to be in the same partition, so
the CPU threads are now independent.  However, we still want to be
able to run guests with a virtual SMT topology, if only to allow
migration of guests from POWER8 systems to POWER9.

A guest that has a virtual SMT mode greater than 1 will expect to
be able to use the doorbell facility; it will expect the msgsndp
and msgclrp instructions to work appropriately and to be able to read
sensible values from the TIR (thread identification register) and
DPDES (directed privileged doorbell exception status) special-purpose
registers.  However, since each CPU thread is a separate sub-processor
in POWER9, these instructions and registers can only be used within
a single CPU thread.

In order for these instructions to appear to act correctly according
to the guest's virtual SMT mode, we have to trap and emulate them.
We cause them to trap by clearing the HFSCR_MSGP bit in the HFSCR
register.  The emulation is triggered by the hypervisor facility
unavailable interrupt that occurs when the guest uses them.

To cause a doorbell interrupt to occur within the guest, we set the
DPDES register to 1.  If the guest has interrupts enabled, the CPU
will generate a doorbell interrupt and clear the DPDES register in
hardware.  The DPDES hardware register for the guest is saved in the
vcpu-&gt;arch.vcore-&gt;dpdes field.  Since this gets written by the guest
exit code, other VCPUs wishing to cause a doorbell interrupt don't
write that field directly, but instead set a vcpu-&gt;arch.doorbell_request
flag.  This is consumed and set to 0 by the guest entry code, which
then sets DPDES to 1.

Emulating reads of the DPDES register is somewhat involved, because
it requires reading the doorbell pending interrupt status of all of the
VCPU threads in the virtual core, and if any of those VCPUs are
running, their doorbell status is only up-to-date in the hardware
DPDES registers of the CPUs where they are running.  In order to get
a reasonable approximation of the current doorbell status, we send
those CPUs an IPI, causing an exit from the guest which will update
the vcpu-&gt;arch.vcore-&gt;dpdes field.  We then use that value in
constructing the emulated DPDES register value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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On POWER9, we no longer have the restriction that we had on POWER8
where all threads in a core have to be in the same partition, so
the CPU threads are now independent.  However, we still want to be
able to run guests with a virtual SMT topology, if only to allow
migration of guests from POWER8 systems to POWER9.

A guest that has a virtual SMT mode greater than 1 will expect to
be able to use the doorbell facility; it will expect the msgsndp
and msgclrp instructions to work appropriately and to be able to read
sensible values from the TIR (thread identification register) and
DPDES (directed privileged doorbell exception status) special-purpose
registers.  However, since each CPU thread is a separate sub-processor
in POWER9, these instructions and registers can only be used within
a single CPU thread.

In order for these instructions to appear to act correctly according
to the guest's virtual SMT mode, we have to trap and emulate them.
We cause them to trap by clearing the HFSCR_MSGP bit in the HFSCR
register.  The emulation is triggered by the hypervisor facility
unavailable interrupt that occurs when the guest uses them.

To cause a doorbell interrupt to occur within the guest, we set the
DPDES register to 1.  If the guest has interrupts enabled, the CPU
will generate a doorbell interrupt and clear the DPDES register in
hardware.  The DPDES hardware register for the guest is saved in the
vcpu-&gt;arch.vcore-&gt;dpdes field.  Since this gets written by the guest
exit code, other VCPUs wishing to cause a doorbell interrupt don't
write that field directly, but instead set a vcpu-&gt;arch.doorbell_request
flag.  This is consumed and set to 0 by the guest entry code, which
then sets DPDES to 1.

Emulating reads of the DPDES register is somewhat involved, because
it requires reading the doorbell pending interrupt status of all of the
VCPU threads in the virtual core, and if any of those VCPUs are
running, their doorbell status is only up-to-date in the hardware
DPDES registers of the CPUs where they are running.  In order to get
a reasonable approximation of the current doorbell status, we send
those CPUs an IPI, causing an exit from the guest which will update
the vcpu-&gt;arch.vcore-&gt;dpdes field.  We then use that value in
constructing the emulated DPDES register value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Avoid cpabort in context switch when possible</title>
<updated>2017-06-15T06:34:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T15:36:09+00:00</published>
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The ISA v3.0B copy-paste facility only requires cpabort when switching
to a process that has foreign real addresses mapped (direct access to
accelerators), to clear a potential copy buffer filled by a previous
thread. There is no accelerator driver implemented yet, so cpabort can
be removed. It can be be re-added when a driver is implemented.

POWER9 DD1 requires the copy buffer to always be cleared on context
switch, but if accelerators are not in use, then an unpaired copy from
a dummy region is sufficient to clear data out of the copy buffer.

This increases context switch performance by about 5% on POWER9.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The ISA v3.0B copy-paste facility only requires cpabort when switching
to a process that has foreign real addresses mapped (direct access to
accelerators), to clear a potential copy buffer filled by a previous
thread. There is no accelerator driver implemented yet, so cpabort can
be removed. It can be be re-added when a driver is implemented.

POWER9 DD1 requires the copy buffer to always be cleared on context
switch, but if accelerators are not in use, then an unpaired copy from
a dummy region is sufficient to clear data out of the copy buffer.

This increases context switch performance by about 5% on POWER9.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2017-05-08T19:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T19:37:56+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - HYP mode stub supports kexec/kdump on 32-bit
   - improved PMU support
   - virtual interrupt controller performance improvements
   - support for userspace virtual interrupt controller (slower, but
     necessary for KVM on the weird Broadcom SoCs used by the Raspberry
     Pi 3)

  MIPS:
   - basic support for hardware virtualization (ImgTec P5600/P6600/I6400
     and Cavium Octeon III)

  PPC:
   - in-kernel acceleration for VFIO

  s390:
   - support for guests without storage keys
   - adapter interruption suppression

  x86:
   - usual range of nVMX improvements, notably nested EPT support for
     accessed and dirty bits
   - emulation of CPL3 CPUID faulting

  generic:
   - first part of VCPU thread request API
   - kvm_stat improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (227 commits)
  kvm: nVMX: Don't validate disabled secondary controls
  KVM: put back #ifndef CONFIG_S390 around kvm_vcpu_kick
  Revert "KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn-&gt;hva cache"
  tools/kvm: fix top level makefile
  KVM: x86: don't hold kvm-&gt;lock in KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING
  KVM: Documentation: remove VM mmap documentation
  kvm: nVMX: Remove superfluous VMX instruction fault checks
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of RSM and IRET instructions
  KVM: mark requests that need synchronization
  KVM: return if kvm_vcpu_wake_up() did wake up the VCPU
  KVM: add explicit barrier to kvm_vcpu_kick
  KVM: perform a wake_up in kvm_make_all_cpus_request
  KVM: mark requests that do not need a wakeup
  KVM: remove #ifndef CONFIG_S390 around kvm_vcpu_wake_up
  KVM: x86: always use kvm_make_request instead of set_bit
  KVM: add kvm_{test,clear}_request to replace {test,clear}_bit
  s390: kvm: Cpu model support for msa6, msa7 and msa8
  KVM: x86: remove irq disablement around KVM_SET_CLOCK/KVM_GET_CLOCK
  kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests
  KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - HYP mode stub supports kexec/kdump on 32-bit
   - improved PMU support
   - virtual interrupt controller performance improvements
   - support for userspace virtual interrupt controller (slower, but
     necessary for KVM on the weird Broadcom SoCs used by the Raspberry
     Pi 3)

  MIPS:
   - basic support for hardware virtualization (ImgTec P5600/P6600/I6400
     and Cavium Octeon III)

  PPC:
   - in-kernel acceleration for VFIO

  s390:
   - support for guests without storage keys
   - adapter interruption suppression

  x86:
   - usual range of nVMX improvements, notably nested EPT support for
     accessed and dirty bits
   - emulation of CPL3 CPUID faulting

  generic:
   - first part of VCPU thread request API
   - kvm_stat improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (227 commits)
  kvm: nVMX: Don't validate disabled secondary controls
  KVM: put back #ifndef CONFIG_S390 around kvm_vcpu_kick
  Revert "KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn-&gt;hva cache"
  tools/kvm: fix top level makefile
  KVM: x86: don't hold kvm-&gt;lock in KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING
  KVM: Documentation: remove VM mmap documentation
  kvm: nVMX: Remove superfluous VMX instruction fault checks
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of RSM and IRET instructions
  KVM: mark requests that need synchronization
  KVM: return if kvm_vcpu_wake_up() did wake up the VCPU
  KVM: add explicit barrier to kvm_vcpu_kick
  KVM: perform a wake_up in kvm_make_all_cpus_request
  KVM: mark requests that do not need a wakeup
  KVM: remove #ifndef CONFIG_S390 around kvm_vcpu_wake_up
  KVM: x86: always use kvm_make_request instead of set_bit
  KVM: add kvm_{test,clear}_request to replace {test,clear}_bit
  s390: kvm: Cpu model support for msa6, msa7 and msa8
  KVM: x86: remove irq disablement around KVM_SET_CLOCK/KVM_GET_CLOCK
  kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests
  KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Add MMIO emulation for remaining floating-point instructions</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T01:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-23T00:55:16+00:00</published>
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For completeness, this adds emulation of the lfiwax and lfiwzx
instructions.  With this, all floating-point load and store instructions
as of Power ISA V2.07 are emulated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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For completeness, this adds emulation of the lfiwax and lfiwzx
instructions.  With this, all floating-point load and store instructions
as of Power ISA V2.07 are emulated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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</content>
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