A fairly boring bunch of changes; most visible is that we can boot
paravirt Linux kernels again, after kvm-77 broke it.
Changes from kvm-77:
- fix paravirt kernels due to missing oos flush (Marcelo Tosatti)
- code cleanups (Sheng Yang)
- fix guest shared interrupts for device assignment (Sheng Yang)
- avoid stale asm-offsets.h on ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix ia64 halt emulation (Xiantao Zhang)
- extend slot bitmap on i386 (Sheng Yang)
- move private memory slots to avoid conflict with device assignment
(Sheng Yang)
- future-proof device assignment ABI
- add emulation and unit tests for add acc, imm instruction
(Guillaume Thouvenin)
- fix nmi watchdog emulation (Jan Kiszka)
- optimize nmi watchdog delivery (Jan Kiszka)
- require irq ack notifier to be used with in-kernel irqchip (Sheng Yang)
- don't halt non-boot cpu if using in-kernel irqchip (Gleb Natapov)
- add cscope definitions (Sheng Yang)
- merge qemu-svn
- new live migration implementation
- usb improvements
- migration fixes
- read UUID from qemu (Gleb Natapov)
- increase max cpu count to 255 for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- handle INIT before SIPI (Gleb Natapov)
- update ppc for nmi changes (Christian Ehrhardt)
- fix external module generation unifdef problem (Sheng Yang)
- set 'g' bit of segment descriptor on AMD when necessary (Amit Shah)
- set 'busy' bit of task descriptor on AMD when necessary (Amit Shah)
- fixes some AMD->Intel live migration failures
- use emulator to adjust rip of pio string instructions (Guillaume
Thouvenin)
- increase rmap preallocation (Marcelo Tosatti)
- fixes oops on mmu intensive smp workloads
- handle mmio in big real mode (Guillaume Thouvenin)
- reorganize ia64 guest data area (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix ia64 guest signal mask (Xiantao Zhang)
- reduce locking when vcpu is halted (Xiantao Zhang)
- update e820 table for ept real mode identity map page (Sheng Yang)
- fix external module build with kvmtrace
- fix ppc xer access (Christian Ehrhardt)
- fix ppc threading (Hollis Blanchard)
- implement libcflat for ppc 44x (Hollis Blanchard)
- set smp limit for ppc (Hollis Blanchard)
- fix ppc memory setup (Christian Ehrhardt)
Notes:
If you use the modules bundled with kvm-78, you can use any version
of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. You may also use kvm-78 userspace with
the kvm modules provided by Linux 2.6.25 or above. Some features may
only be available in newer releases.
http://kvm.qumranet.com
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