These patches allow PowerPC to create vcpus of a particular type. Since we are actually emulating the core's supervisor mode, we can choose to emulate any type of core. However, since the core chosen will change the size of the vcpu structure (among other things), we need to know it at vcpu creation time, rather than after the fact (which is how x86's cpuid is handled).
I've included the first example of how PowerPC will be using the new capability, and this will be significantly extended in the future. I think you get the idea... I still need to update my tree and patch IA64 to match, but is this approach acceptable? 6 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 +- include/asm-powerpc/kvm_host.h | 5 ++ include/linux/kvm.h | 8 ++++ include/linux/kvm_host.h | 4 +- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 9 ++-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
