From: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<penberg@kernel.org>, <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>,
<prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use kernel supplied MMU info for kvm tool
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:33:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e2231e9bf466549d1f9b12359f2f8f6@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342501220-10209-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au>
Hi Michael,
On 2012-07-17 06:00, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> This is a series for kvmtool that uses a newish kernel API to get
> MMU info, which is then fed to the guest.
>
> Currently we just make a good guess based on the PVR, but that is
> potentially flakey in a few ways. The most notable is that if you
> don't
> specify hugepages we don't boot - because the guest is told we
> support
> 16M pages, but we don't really (on HV).
Just had a look, all good. Thanks for tidying some old FIXMEs,
especially the page/segment DT props encoding grot -- and the designated
inits in the cpuinfo struct, whew, I heard the scream on IRC. Sorry.
;-)
Acked-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-17 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 5:00 Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 01/10] kvm tools: Move mmap_anon_or_hugetblfs() into util Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 02/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Use mmap_anon_or_hugetblfs() in kvm__arch_init() Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 03/10] kvm tools: Remember page size as kvm->ram_pagesize Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 04/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Use designated initializers for struct cpu_info Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 05/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Use ARRAY_SIZE() in find_cpu_info() Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Reformatting " Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Restructure find_cpu_info() Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Use MMU info from the kernel for ibm,segment-page-sizes Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Use MMU info for ibm,processor-segment-sizes Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 5:00 ` [PATCH 10/10] kvm tools, powerpc: Use MMU info for ibm,slb-size Michael Ellerman
2012-07-17 9:33 ` Matt Evans [this message]
2012-07-17 14:09 ` [RFC/PATCH] Use kernel supplied MMU info for kvm tool Pekka Enberg
2012-07-18 2:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-07-31 6:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-07-18 2:03 ` Michael Ellerman
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