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    KVM: PPC: Add helper library for Guest State Buffers · 6ccbbc33
    Jordan Niethe authored
    The PAPR "Nestedv2" guest API introduces the concept of a Guest State
    Buffer for communication about L2 guests between L1 and L0 hosts.
    
    In the new API, the L0 manages the L2 on behalf of the L1. This means
    that if the L1 needs to change L2 state (e.g. GPRs, SPRs, partition
    table...), it must request the L0 perform the modification. If the
    nested host needs to read L2 state likewise this request must
    go through the L0.
    
    The Guest State Buffer is a Type-Length-Value style data format defined
    in the PAPR which assigns all relevant partition state a unique
    identity. Unlike a typical TLV format the length is redundant as the
    length of each identity is fixed but is included for checking
    correctness.
    
    A guest state buffer consists of an element count followed by a stream
    of elements, where elements are composed of an ID number, data length,
    then the data:
    
      Header:
    
       <---4 bytes--->
      +----------------+-----
      | Element Count  | Elements...
      +----------------+-----
    
      Element:
    
       <----2 bytes---> <-2 bytes-> <-Length bytes->
      +----------------+-----------+----------------+
      | Guest State ID |  Length   |      Data      |
      +----------------+-----------+----------------+
    
    Guest State IDs have other attributes defined in the PAPR such as
    whether they are per thread or per guest, or read-only.
    
    Introduce a library for using guest state buffers. This includes support
    for actions such as creating buffers, adding elements to buffers,
    reading the value of elements and parsing buffers. This will be used
    later by the nestedv2 guest support.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://msgid.link/20230914030600.16993-9-jniethe5@gmail.com
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