kvm tools SPAPR PPC64 support
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/8] kvm tools SPAPR PPC64 support
Hi,
This set of patches builds upon the prep-work of the previous set and adds support to kvmtool for PPC64 SPAPR-based guests, i.e. an environment akin to an LPAR on IBM's pSeries machines.
This support is not yet fully-featured but, in a basic state, works well. The guests have a functional but no-frills experience, with:
- SMP guests
- HV console (or RTAS console, for udbg)
- Net, block over virtio-pci
- No PAPR VIO/VSCSI/VNET yet
- No fancyfeatures like migration yet
Though minimal, guests are quite stable.
There are obvious areas for future improvement:
- Non-VRMA RMAs aren't supported, meaning POWER7-only for the moment
- Other CPU-specific details are currently assumed (e.g. available page sizes); work is required to determine host capabilities and pass these up.
- Support SLOF
- Maybe support VIO
- Some hypercalls used by partition firmware/SLOF (not the kernel) are unimplemented
- Fancy PCI (e.g. passthrough)
- Currently KVM_NR_CPUs is arbitrarily fixed at 255, and could be higher. Guests with this many CPUs boot fine.
Some PPC KVM kernel-side features aren't implemented yet and have required kvmtool workarounds; mmio coalescing isn't supported and lack of ioeventfds requires virtio to gracefully fall back when it fails to register one.
Cheers,
Matt
Matt Evans (8):
kvm tools: Add initial SPAPR PPC64 architecture support kvm tools: Generate SPAPR PPC64 guest device tree kvm tools: Add SPAPR PPC64 hcall & rtascall structure kvm tools: Add SPAPR PPC64 HV console
kvm tools: Add PPC64 XICS interrupt controller support kvm tools: Add PPC64 PCI Host Bridge
kvm tools: Add PPC64 kvm_cpu__emulate_io()
kvm tools: Make virtio-pci's ioeventfd__add_event() fall back
gracefully if ioeventfds unavailable
tools/kvm/Makefile | 16 + tools/kvm/include/kvm/ioeventfd.h | 3 +- tools/kvm/ioeventfd.c | 12 +- tools/kvm/kvm.c | 3 + tools/kvm/powerpc/include/kvm/barrier.h | 6 + tools/kvm/powerpc/include/kvm/kvm-arch.h | 74 ++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h | 48 +++ tools/kvm/powerpc/ioport.c | 18 + tools/kvm/powerpc/irq.c | 62 +++ tools/kvm/powerpc/kvm-cpu.c | 281 ++++++++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/kvm.c | 466 +++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr.h | 316 +++++++++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_hcall.c | 151 ++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_hvcons.c | 101 +++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_hvcons.h | 19 + tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_pci.c | 429 +++++++++++++++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_pci.h | 38 ++ tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_rtas.c | 226 +++++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/xics.c | 529 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/kvm/powerpc/xics.h | 23 ++ tools/kvm/virtio/pci.c | 11 +- 21 files changed, 2827 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/include/kvm/barrier.h create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/include/kvm/kvm-arch.h create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/ioport.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/irq.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/kvm-cpu.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/kvm.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr.h create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_hcall.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_hvcons.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_hvcons.h create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_pci.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_pci.h create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/spapr_rtas.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/xics.c create mode 100644 tools/kvm/powerpc/xics.h