KVM: s390: forward most SIGP orders to user space
authorDavid Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 9 Oct 2014 12:10:13 +0000 (14:10 +0200)
committerChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:25:37 +0000 (13:25 +0100)
commit2444b352c3acf54897b0e2803a7c4e66699f9f43
tree42490c1860791c4d674fe8c40aaf77c4d0407ab7
parent9fbd80828cef1b1bba5a293609a021047bb86a7e
KVM: s390: forward most SIGP orders to user space

Most SIGP orders are handled partially in kernel and partially in
user space. In order to:
- Get a correct SIGP SET PREFIX handler that informs user space
- Avoid race conditions between concurrently executed SIGP orders
- Serialize SIGP orders per VCPU

We need to handle all "slow" SIGP orders in user space. The remaining
ones to be handled completely in kernel are:
- SENSE
- SENSE RUNNING
- EXTERNAL CALL
- EMERGENCY SIGNAL
- CONDITIONAL EMERGENCY SIGNAL
According to the PoP, they have to be fast. They can be executed
without conflicting to the actions of other pending/concurrently
executing orders (e.g. STOP vs. START).

This patch introduces a new capability that will - when enabled -
forward all but the mentioned SIGP orders to user space. The
instruction counters in the kernel are still updated.

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
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