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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Run HPT guests on POWER9 radix hosts · c0101509
    Paul Mackerras authored
    This patch removes the restriction that a radix host can only run
    radix guests, allowing us to run HPT (hashed page table) guests as
    well.  This is useful because it provides a way to run old guest
    kernels that know about POWER8 but not POWER9.
    
    Unfortunately, POWER9 currently has a restriction that all threads
    in a given code must either all be in HPT mode, or all in radix mode.
    This means that when entering a HPT guest, we have to obtain control
    of all 4 threads in the core and get them to switch their LPIDR and
    LPCR registers, even if they are not going to run a guest.  On guest
    exit we also have to get all threads to switch LPIDR and LPCR back
    to host values.
    
    To make this feasible, we require that KVM not be in the "independent
    threads" mode, and that the CPU cores be in single-threaded mode from
    the host kernel's perspective (only thread 0 online; threads 1, 2 and
    3 offline).  That allows us to use the same code as on POWER8 for
    obtaining control of the secondary threads.
    
    To manage the LPCR/LPIDR changes required, we extend the kvm_split_info
    struct to contain the information needed by the secondary threads.
    All threads perform a barrier synchronization (where all threads wait
    for every other thread to reach the synchronization point) on guest
    entry, both before and after loading LPCR and LPIDR.  On guest exit,
    they all once again perform a barrier synchronization both before
    and after loading host values into LPCR and LPIDR.
    
    Finally, it is also currently necessary to flush the entire TLB every
    time we enter a HPT guest on a radix host.  We do this on thread 0
    with a loop of tlbiel instructions.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
    c0101509
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