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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Provide a way for userspace to get/set per-vCPU areas · 55b665b0
    Paul Mackerras authored
    The PAPR paravirtualization interface lets guests register three
    different types of per-vCPU buffer areas in its memory for communication
    with the hypervisor.  These are called virtual processor areas (VPAs).
    Currently the hypercalls to register and unregister VPAs are handled
    by KVM in the kernel, and userspace has no way to know about or save
    and restore these registrations across a migration.
    
    This adds "register" codes for these three areas that userspace can
    use with the KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG ioctls to see what addresses have
    been registered, and to register or unregister them.  This will be
    needed for guest hibernation and migration, and is also needed so
    that userspace can unregister them on reset (otherwise we corrupt
    guest memory after reboot by writing to the VPAs registered by the
    previous kernel).
    
    The "register" for the VPA is a 64-bit value containing the address,
    since the length of the VPA is fixed.  The "registers" for the SLB
    shadow buffer and dispatch trace log (DTL) are 128 bits long,
    consisting of the guest physical address in the high (first) 64 bits
    and the length in the low 64 bits.
    
    This also fixes a bug where we were calling init_vpa unconditionally,
    leading to an oops when unregistering the VPA.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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