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David Gibson 54738c0971 KVM: PPC: Accelerate H_PUT_TCE by implementing it in real mode
This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR
paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by
implementing it in real mode.  H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual
IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the
PAPR interface.

Since this moves the IOMMU tables into the kernel, we define a new
KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE ioctl to allow qemu to create the tables.  The
ioctl returns a file descriptor which can be used to mmap the newly
created table.  The qemu driver models use them in the same way as
userspace managed tables, but they can be updated directly by the
guest with a real-mode H_PUT_TCE implementation, reducing the number
of host/guest context switches during guest IO.

There are certain circumstances where it is useful for userland qemu
to write to the TCE table even if the kernel H_PUT_TCE path is used
most of the time.  Specifically, allowing this will avoid awkwardness
when we need to reset the table.  More importantly, we will in the
future need to write the table in order to restore its state after a
checkpoint resume or migration.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-07-12 13:16:56 +03:00
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ABI backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices 2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
accounting Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point 2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
acpi ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver 2011-05-29 01:50:40 -04:00
aoe
arm Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung into devel-stable 2011-05-25 21:47:48 +01:00
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cgroups Documentation: fix cgroup blkio throttle filenames 2011-07-06 13:17:51 -07:00
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hwmon hwmon: (k10temp) Update documentation for Fam12h 2011-07-03 13:32:54 +02:00
i2c i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs 2011-05-24 20:58:49 +02:00
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power PM / Runtime: Update documentation regarding driver removal 2011-07-02 14:27:11 +02:00
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pti Kernel documentation for the PTI feature. 2011-05-13 16:31:00 -07:00
ptp ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks. 2011-05-23 13:01:00 -07:00
rapidio
RCU rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof 2011-05-26 09:42:23 -07:00
s390
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scsi [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update 2011-05-24 12:36:06 -04:00
security Create Documentation/security/, 2011-05-19 15:59:38 -07:00
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sysctl coredump: add support for exe_file in core name 2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
target
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thermal
timers doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") 2011-05-17 10:52:02 +02:00
trace
usb USB: Fix up URB error codes to reflect implementation. 2011-06-17 11:28:21 -07:00
video4linux [media] uvcvideo: Add driver documentation 2011-05-20 09:30:36 -03:00
virtual KVM: PPC: Accelerate H_PUT_TCE by implementing it in real mode 2011-07-12 13:16:56 +03:00
vm Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point 2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
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00-INDEX Merge branch 'docs-security' into docs-move 2011-05-20 09:10:04 -07:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: avoid volatile in sample code 2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t 2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
Changes
circular-buffers.txt
coccinelle.txt
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cpu-hotplug.txt
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dmaengine.txt dmaengine: Add API documentation for slave dma usage 2011-05-25 14:49:20 -07:00
dontdiff Documentation: update dontdiff file 2011-05-23 15:14:11 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt
feature-removal-schedule.txt Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove ns_cgroup from feature-removal-schedule.txt 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gpio.txt
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: update LXR web link 2011-05-23 15:14:11 -07:00
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq 2011-05-25 08:39:45 -07:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
kernel-docs.txt
kernel-parameters.txt usb-storage: redo incorrect reads 2011-06-07 09:05:42 -07:00
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt Documentation: update kmemleak supported archs 2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt
kref.txt
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt
lockdep-design.txt
lockstat.txt Documentation: Add statistics about nested locks 2011-05-28 17:03:29 +02:00
logo.gif
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magic-number.txt
Makefile
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mca.txt
md.txt md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo 2011-06-09 11:43:04 +10:00
media-framework.txt
memory-barriers.txt
memory-hotplug.txt
memory.txt
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt
nmi_watchdog.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt Documentation: update printk-formats.txt 2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
SM501.txt
sparse.txt
spinlocks.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt
SubmitChecklist
SubmittingDrivers
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svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt Documentation: fix vgaarbiter.txt typos etc. 2011-05-23 15:14:11 -07:00
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt