linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use kernel supplied MMU info for kvm tool

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:33:05 +0100
From:	Matt Evans <matt@...abs.org>
To:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	<kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<penberg@...nel.org>, <kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org>,
	<prerna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use kernel supplied MMU info for kvm tool

Hi Michael,

On 2012-07-17 06:00, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> This is a series for kvmtool that uses a newish kernel API to get
> MMU info, which is then fed to the guest.
>
> Currently we just make a good guess based on the PVR, but that is
> potentially flakey in a few ways. The most notable is that if you 
> don't
> specify hugepages we don't boot - because the guest is told we 
> support
> 16M pages, but we don't really (on HV).

Just had a look, all good.  Thanks for tidying some old FIXMEs, 
especially the page/segment DT props encoding grot -- and the designated 
inits in the cpuinfo struct, whew, I heard the scream on IRC.  Sorry. 
;-)


Acked-by: Matt Evans <matt@...abs.org>


Matt

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