[RFC v0 PATCH] kvm: powerpc: Allow reuse of vCPU object

2015-03-08 Thread bharata . rao
From: Bharata B Rao bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Since KVM isn't equipped to handle closure of vcpu fd from userspace(QEMU) correctly, certain work arounds have to be employed to allow reuse of vcpu array slot in KVM during cpu hot plug/unplug from guest. One such proposed workaround is to park the

[PATCH v2 1/1] pseries: Make CPU hotplug path endian safe

2014-09-15 Thread bharata . rao
From: Bharata B Rao bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com - ibm,rtas-configure-connector should treat the RTAS data as big endian. - Treat ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s as big-endian when setting smp_processor_id during hotplug. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas

[PATCH] pseries: Make CPU hotplug path endian safe

2014-09-05 Thread bharata . rao
From: Bharata B Rao bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com - ibm,rtas-configure-connector should treat the RTAS data as big endian. - Treat ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s as big-endian when setting smp_processor_id during hotplug. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com ---