------- Comment From [email protected] 2018-03-26 08:50 EDT-------
Gustavo is already involved on the email thread that originated this; assigning
to him.
In the thread Paul Mackerras also mentions others fixes. Pasting here
for reference.
"""
I went through all the KVM PPC patches since 4.15 and checked whether each one
was in Ubuntu as of the Ubuntu-4.15.0-12.13 tag. The ones that aren't in there
that we want are:
* Allow HPT guests on P9 DD2.2 without requiring indep_threads_mode=N.
6964e6a4e489 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Do SLB load/unload with guest LPCR value
loaded
cda4a1473313 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix duplication of host SLB entries (needed
once 6964e6a4e489 is in)
00608e1f007e KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Allow HPT and radix on the same core for
POWER9 v2.2
* Memory management fixes.
c3856aeb2940 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of large pages in radix page
fault handler
debd574f4195 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix VRMA initialization with 2MB or 1GB
memory backing
* Emulation of VMX loads and stores for MMIO.
09f984961c13 KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add MMIO emulation for VMX instructions
6df3877fc962 KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix compile error that occurs with some gcc
versions (needed once 09f984961c13 is in)
* Other important fixes.
05f2bb0313a2 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of secondary HPTEG in HPT
resizing code
790a9df5fbef KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HPT resizing work on POWER9
a8b48a4dccea KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix trap number return from
__kvmppc_vcore_entry
Paul.
"""
** Changed in: ubuntu
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage
(ubuntu-power-triage)
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