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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add userspace interfaces for POWER9 MMU · c9270132
    Paul Mackerras authored
    This adds two capabilities and two ioctls to allow userspace to
    find out about and configure the POWER9 MMU in a guest.  The two
    capabilities tell userspace whether KVM can support a guest using
    the radix MMU, or using the hashed page table (HPT) MMU with a
    process table and segment tables.  (Note that the MMUs in the
    POWER9 processor cores do not use the process and segment tables
    when in HPT mode, but the nest MMU does).
    
    The KVM_PPC_CONFIGURE_V3_MMU ioctl allows userspace to specify
    whether a guest will use the radix MMU or the HPT MMU, and to
    specify the size and location (in guest space) of the process
    table.
    
    The KVM_PPC_GET_RMMU_INFO ioctl gives userspace information about
    the radix MMU.  It returns a list of supported radix tree geometries
    (base page size and number of bits indexed at each level of the
    radix tree) and the encoding used to specify the various page
    sizes for the TLB invalidate entry instruction.
    
    Initially, both capabilities return 0 and the ioctls return -EINVAL,
    until the necessary infrastructure for them to operate correctly
    is added.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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