From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp02.au.ibm.com (e23smtp02.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.144]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e23smtp02.au.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08CD22C00B3 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 03:48:46 +1100 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp02.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 02:48:33 +1000 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.21]) by d23dlp01.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F0A2CE8057 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 03:48:29 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r97GmBHP065990 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 03:48:18 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r97GmMIo024677 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 03:48:23 +1100 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: agraf@suse.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: [PATCH -V2 00/14] Allow PR and HV KVM to coexist in one kernel Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:17:48 +0530 Message-Id: <1381164482-31001-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi All, This patch series support enabling HV and PR KVM together in the same kernel. We extend machine property with new property "kvm_type". A value of "HV" will force HV KVM and "PR" PR KVM. If we don't specify kvm_type we will select the fastest KVM mode. ie, HV if that is supported otherwise PR. With Qemu command line having -machine pseries,accel=kvm,kvm_type=HV [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# bash ../qemu failed to initialize KVM: Invalid argument [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# modprobe kvm-pr [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# bash ../qemu failed to initialize KVM: Invalid argument [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# modprobe kvm-hv [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# bash ../qemu now with -machine pseries,accel=kvm,kvm_type=PR [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# rmmod kvm-pr [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# bash ../qemu failed to initialize KVM: Invalid argument [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# modprobe kvm-pr [root@llmp24l02 qemu]# bash ../qemu Changes from V1: * Build fixes for BOOKE (only compile tested) * Address review feedback -aneesh