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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Allow nested guest creation when L0 hv_guest_state > L1 · afe75049
    Ravi Bangoria authored
    On powerpc, L1 hypervisor takes help of L0 using H_ENTER_NESTED
    hcall to load L2 guest state in cpu. L1 hypervisor prepares the
    L2 state in struct hv_guest_state and passes a pointer to it via
    hcall. Using that pointer, L0 reads/writes that state directly
    from/to L1 memory. Thus L0 must be aware of hv_guest_state layout
    of L1. Currently it uses version field to achieve this. i.e. If
    L0 hv_guest_state.version != L1 hv_guest_state.version, L0 won't
    allow nested kvm guest.
    
    This restriction can be loosened up a bit. L0 can be taught to
    understand older layout of hv_guest_state, if we restrict the
    new members to be added only at the end, i.e. we can allow
    nested guest even when L0 hv_guest_state.version > L1
    hv_guest_state.version. Though, the other way around is not
    possible.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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