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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Provide a method for userspace to read and write the HPT · a2932923
    Paul Mackerras authored
    
    
    A new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD, returns a file descriptor.  Reads on
    this fd return the contents of the HPT (hashed page table), writes
    create and/or remove entries in the HPT.  There is a new capability,
    KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD, to indicate the presence of the ioctl.  The ioctl
    takes an argument structure with the index of the first HPT entry to
    read out and a set of flags.  The flags indicate whether the user is
    intending to read or write the HPT, and whether to return all entries
    or only the "bolted" entries (those with the bolted bit, 0x10, set in
    the first doubleword).
    
    This is intended for use in implementing qemu's savevm/loadvm and for
    live migration.  Therefore, on reads, the first pass returns information
    about all HPTEs (or all bolted HPTEs).  When the first pass reaches the
    end of the HPT, it returns from the read.  Subsequent reads only return
    information about HPTEs that have changed since they were last read.
    A read that finds no changed HPTEs in the HPT following where the last
    read finished will return 0 bytes.
    
    The format of the data provides a simple run-length compression of the
    invalid entries.  Each block of data starts with a header that indicates
    the index (position in the HPT, which is just an array), the number of
    valid entries starting at that index (may be zero), and the number of
    invalid entries following those valid entries.  The valid entries, 16
    bytes each, follow the header.  The invalid entries are not explicitly
    represented.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    [agraf: fix documentation]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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