kernel-fxtec-pro1x/arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig
Paul Mackerras de56a948b9 KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode
This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors,
specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode.  Using hypervisor mode means
that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode.  That means
that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged
registers itself without trapping to the host.  This gives excellent
performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor
architecture other than the one that the hardware implements.

This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the
PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the
interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses.  That means that existing
Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run
under KVM without modification.  In order to communicate the PAPR
hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code
to include/linux/kvm.h.

Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support
(i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be
made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only
do one or the other.

This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present.
Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious
restriction.

With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight
to the guest.  We will never get data or instruction storage or segment
interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program
interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from
the guest.  Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the
exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry
to those exception handlers.

We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage,
hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist
interrupts, so we have to handle those.

In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just
a limited amount.  Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch
and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space.
We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use
anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it.
We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a
kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers,
so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct.

The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have
to be in the same partition.  MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition
(partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and
exit from the guest.  At present we require the host and guest to run
in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction.

This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes
it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA).  We
require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in
order to simplify the low-level memory management.  This also means that
we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now,
since huge pages can't be paged or swapped.

This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:54 +03:00

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# KVM configuration
#
source "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
bool "Virtualization"
---help---
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run
other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and
disabled.
if VIRTUALIZATION
config KVM
bool
select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
select ANON_INODES
config KVM_BOOK3S_HANDLER
bool
config KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER
bool
select KVM_BOOK3S_HANDLER
select KVM_MMIO
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HANDLER
bool
select KVM_BOOK3S_HANDLER
config KVM_BOOK3S_PR
bool
select KVM_MMIO
config KVM_BOOK3S_32
tristate "KVM support for PowerPC book3s_32 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPC_BOOK3S_32 && !SMP && !PTE_64BIT
select KVM
select KVM_BOOK3S_32_HANDLER
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_32 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_BOOK3S_64
tristate "KVM support for PowerPC book3s_64 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPC_BOOK3S_64
select KVM_BOOK3S_64_HANDLER
select KVM
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_64 and book3s_32 guest kernels
in virtual machines on book3s_64 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
bool "KVM support for POWER7 using hypervisor mode in host"
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64
---help---
Support running unmodified book3s_64 guest kernels in
virtual machines on POWER7 processors that have hypervisor
mode available to the host.
If you say Y here, KVM will use the hardware virtualization
facilities of POWER7 (and later) processors, meaning that
guest operating systems will run at full hardware speed
using supervisor and user modes. However, this also means
that KVM is not usable under PowerVM (pHyp), is only usable
on POWER7 (or later) processors, and can only emulate
POWER5+, POWER6 and POWER7 processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_BOOK3S_64_PR
def_bool y
depends on KVM_BOOK3S_64 && !KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
select KVM_BOOK3S_PR
config KVM_440
bool "KVM support for PowerPC 440 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && 44x
select KVM
select KVM_MMIO
---help---
Support running unmodified 440 guest kernels in virtual machines on
440 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed exit timing"
depends on KVM_440 || KVM_E500
---help---
Calculate elapsed time for every exit/enter cycle. A per-vcpu
report is available in debugfs kvm/vm#_vcpu#_timing.
The overhead is relatively small, however it is not recommended for
production environments.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_E500
bool "KVM support for PowerPC E500 processors"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL && E500
select KVM
select KVM_MMIO
---help---
Support running unmodified E500 guest kernels in virtual machines on
E500 host processors.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
If unsure, say N.
source drivers/vhost/Kconfig
source drivers/virtio/Kconfig
endif # VIRTUALIZATION