Accesses to the hashed page table (HPT) are complicated by the fact that
the HPT could be in one of three places:
1) Within guest memory - when we're emulating a full guest CPU at the
hardware level (e.g. powernv, mac99, g3beige)
2) Within qemu, but outside guest memory - when we're emulating user and
supervisor instructions within TCG, but instead of emulating
the CPU's hypervisor mode, we just emulate a hypervisor's behaviour
(pseries in TCG or KVM-PR)
3) Within the host kernel - a pseries machine using KVM-HV
acceleration. Mostly accesses to the HPT are handled by KVM,
but there are a few cases where qemu needs to access it via a
special fd for the purpose.
In order to batch accesses to the fd in case (3), we use a somewhat awkward
ppc_hash64_start_access() / ppc_hash64_stop_access() pair, which for case
(3) reads / releases several HPTEs from the kernel as a batch (usually a
whole PTEG). For cases (1) & (2) it just returns an address value. The
actual HPTE load helpers then need to interpret the returned token
differently in the 3 cases.
This patch keeps the same basic structure, but simplfiies the details.
First start_access() / stop_access() are renamed to map_hptes() and
unmap_hptes() to make their operation more obvious. Second, map_hptes()
now always returns a qemu pointer, which can always be used in the same way
by the load_hpte() helpers. In case (1) it comes from address_space_map()
in case (2) directly from qemu's HPT buffer and in case (3) from a
temporary buffer read from the KVM fd.
While we're at it, make things a bit more consistent in terms of types and
variable names: avoid variables named 'index' (it shadows index(3) which
can lead to confusing results), use 'hwaddr ptex' for HPTE indices and
uint64_t for each of the HPTE words, use ptex throughout the call stack
instead of pte_offset in some places (we still need that at the bottom
layer, but nowhere else).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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