Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-next-4.20-1' of...
Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-next-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into HEAD PPC KVM update for 4.20. The major new feature here is nested HV KVM support. This allows the HV KVM module to load inside a radix guest on POWER9 and run radix guests underneath it. These nested guests can run in supervisor mode and don't require any additional instructions to be emulated, unlike with PR KVM, and so performance is much better than with PR KVM, and is very close to the performance of a non-nested guest. A nested hypervisor (a guest with nested guests) can be migrated to another host and will bring all its nested guests along with it. A nested guest can also itself run guests, and so on down to any desired depth of nesting. Apart from that there are a series of updates for IOMMU handling from Alexey Kardashevskiy, a "one VM per core" mode for HV KVM for security-paranoid applications, and a small fix for PR KVM.
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