The PowerPC ISA has a special instruction for mtmsr that only changes the EE
and RI bits, namely the L=1 form.
Since that one is reasonably often occuring and simple to implement, let's
go with this first. Writing EE=0 is always just a store. Doing EE=1 also
requires us to check for pending interrupts and if necessary exit back to the
hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will need to patch several instruction streams over to a different
code path, so we need a way to patch a single instruction with a branch
somewhere else.
This patch adds a helper to facilitate this patching.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will soon require more sophisticated methods to replace single instructions
with multiple instructions. We do that by branching to a memory region where we
write replacement code for the instruction to.
This region needs to be within 32 MB of the patched instruction though, because
that's the furthest we can jump with immediate branches.
So we keep 1MB of free space around in bss. After we're done initing we can just
tell the mm system that the unused pages are free, but until then we have enough
space to fit all our code in.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
With our current MMU scheme we don't need to know about the tlbsync instruction.
So we can just nop it out.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Some instructions can simply be replaced by load and store instructions to
or from the magic page.
This patch replaces often called instructions that fall into the above category.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We will soon start and replace instructions from the text section with
other, paravirtualized versions. To ease the readability of those patches
I split out the generic looping and magic page mapping code out.
This patch still only contains stubs. But at least it loops through the
text section :).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We have all the hypervisor pieces in place now, but the guest parts are still
missing.
This patch implements basic awareness of KVM when running Linux as guest. It
doesn't do anything with it yet though.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To communicate with KVM directly we need to plumb some sort of interface
between the guest and KVM. Usually those interfaces use hypercalls.
This hypercall implementation is described in the last patch of the series
in a special documentation file. Please read that for further information.
This patch implements stubs to handle KVM PPC hypercalls on the host and
guest side alike.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
