KVM: Add ppc hypercall documentation
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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That way we can inject an arbitrary amount of code as replacement for a single
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instruction. This allows us to check for pending interrupts when setting EE=1
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for example.
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Hypercall ABIs in KVM on PowerPC
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1) KVM hypercalls (ePAPR)
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These are ePAPR compliant hypercall implementation (mentioned above). Even
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generic hypercalls are implemented here, like the ePAPR idle hcall. These are
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available on all targets.
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2) PAPR hypercalls
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PAPR hypercalls are needed to run server PowerPC PAPR guests (-M pseries in QEMU).
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These are the same hypercalls that pHyp, the POWER hypervisor implements. Some of
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them are handled in the kernel, some are handled in user space. This is only
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available on book3s_64.
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3) OSI hypercalls
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Mac-on-Linux is another user of KVM on PowerPC, which has its own hypercall (long
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before KVM). This is supported to maintain compatibility. All these hypercalls get
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forwarded to user space. This is only useful on book3s_32, but can be used with
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book3s_64 as well.
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