Comment 1 for bug 1758910

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 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.

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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.
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