Re: [PATCH v6 00/20] ppc/pnv: add XIVE support for KVM guests

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 07:58:00AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The QEMU PowerNV machine emulates a baremetal OpenPOWER system and
> acts as an hypervisor (L0). Supporting emulation of KVM to run guests
> (L1) requires a few more extensions, among which guest support for the
> XIVE interrupt controller on POWER9 processor.
> 
> The following changes extend the XIVE models with the new XiveFabric
> and XivePresenter interfaces to provide support for XIVE escalations
> and interrupt resend. This mechanism is used by XIVE to notify the
> hypervisor that a vCPU is not dispatched on a HW thread. Tested on a
> QEMU PowerNV machine and a simple QEMU pseries guest doing network on
> a local bridge.
> 
> The XIVE interrupt controller offers a way to increase the XIVE
> resources per chip by configuring multiple XIVE blocks on a chip. This
> is not currently supported by the model. However, some configurations,
> such as OPAL/skiboot, use one block-per-chip configuration with some
> optimizations. One of them is to override the hardwired chip ID by the
> block id in the PowerBUS operations and for CAM line compares. This
> patchset improves the support for this setup. Tested with 4 chips.
> 
> A series from Suraj adding guest support in the Radix MMU model of the
> QEMU PowerNV machine is still required and will be send later. The
> whole patchset can be found under :
> 
>   https://github.com/legoater/qemu/tree/powernv-4.2

I now have all of this applied to the ppc-for-5.0 branch.

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