The main thing here is a new implementation of the in-kernel
XICS interrupt controller emulation for POWER9 machines, from Ben
Herrenschmidt.
POWER9 has a new interrupt controller called XIVE (eXternal Interrupt
Virtualization Engine) which is able to deliver interrupts directly
to guest virtual CPUs in hardware without hypervisor intervention.
With this new code, the guest still sees the old XICS interface but
performance is better because the XICS emulation in the host uses the
XIVE directly rather than going through a XICS emulation in firmware.
Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/kernel/cpu_setup_power.S [cherry-picked fix]
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive.c [include asm/debugfs.h]
This patch makes KVM capable of using the XIVE interrupt controller
to provide the standard PAPR "XICS" style hypercalls. It is necessary
for proper operations when the host uses XIVE natively.
This has been lightly tested on an actual system, including PCI
pass-through with a TG3 device.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[mpe: Cleanup pr_xxx(), unsplit pr_xxx() strings, etc., fix build
failures by adding KVM_XIVE which depends on KVM_XICS and XIVE, and
adding empty stubs for the kvm_xive_xxx() routines, fixup subject,
integrate fixes from Paul for building PR=y HV=n]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Paolo Bonzini