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powerpc/kvm: Contiguous memory allocator based hash page table allocation

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Powerpc architecture uses a hash based page table mechanism for mapping virtual
addresses to physical address. The architecture require this hash page table to
be physically contiguous. With KVM on Powerpc currently we use early reservation
mechanism for allocating guest hash page table. This implies that we need to
reserve a big memory region to ensure we can create large number of guest
simultaneously with KVM on Power. Another disadvantage is that the reserved memory
is not available to rest of the subsystems and and that implies we limit the total
available memory in the host.

This patch series switch the guest hash page table allocation to use
contiguous memory allocator.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-07-02 11:15:16 +05:30
committed by Alexander Graf
parent f35320288c
commit fa61a4e376
10 changed files with 341 additions and 51 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
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@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
/* Initialize the hash table or TLB handling */
early_init_mmu();
kvm_cma_reserve();
/*
* Reserve any gigantic pages requested on the command line.
* memblock needs to have been initialized by the time this is