[PATCH 0 of 3] RFC: creating a particular vcpu type

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

These patches allow PowerPC to create vcpus of a particular type. Since we are
actually emulating the core's supervisor mode, we can choose to emulate any
type of core. However, since the core chosen will change the size of the vcpu
structure (among other things), we need to know it at vcpu creation time,
rather than after the fact (which is how x86's cpuid is handled).

I've included the first example of how PowerPC will be using the new
capability, and this will be significantly extended in the future. I think you
get the idea...

I still need to update my tree and patch IA64 to match, but is this approach
acceptable?

6 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c     |   80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c             |    4 +-
include/asm-powerpc/kvm_host.h |    5 ++
include/linux/kvm.h            |    8 ++++
include/linux/kvm_host.h       |    4 +-
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c            |    9 ++--

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