When a 'pseries' guest is running with KVM-HV, the guest's hashed page
table (HPT) is stored within the host kernel, so it is not directly
accessible to qemu. Most of the time, qemu doesn't need to access it:
we're using the hardware MMU, and KVM itself implements the guest
hypercalls for manipulating the HPT.
However, qemu does need access to the in-KVM HPT to implement
get_phys_page_debug() for the benefit of the gdbstub, and maybe for
other debug operations.
To allow this, 7c43bca "target-ppc: Fix page table lookup with kvm
enabled" added kvmppc_hash64_read_pteg() to target/ppc/kvm.c to read
in a batch of HPTEs from the KVM table. Unfortunately, there are a
couple of problems with this:
First, the name of the function implies it always reads a whole PTEG
from the HPT, but in fact in some cases it's used to grab individual
HPTEs (which ends up pulling 8 HPTEs, not aligned to a PTEG from the
kernel).
Second, and more importantly, the code to read the HPTEs from KVM is
simply wrong, in general. The data from the fd that KVM provides is
designed mostly for compact migration rather than this sort of one-off
access, and so needs some decoding for this purpose. The current code
will work in some cases, but if there are invalid HPTEs then it will
not get sane results.
This patch rewrite the HPTE reading function to have a simpler
interface (just read n HPTEs into a caller provided buffer), and to
correctly decode the stream from the kernel.
For consistency we also clean up the similar function for altering
HPTEs within KVM (introduced in c138593 "target-ppc: Update
ppc_hash64_store_hpte to support updating in-kernel htab").
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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