ppc patch queue 2016-07-29
Here are the current pending ppc and spapr related patches for
qemu-2.7. Given the freeze status, these are all bugfixes, with two
exceptions:
* There's some final rework of the vcpu hotplug model. Specifically
we add spapr specific code on the generic basis Igor established
to make cpu_index stable for pseries-2.7 and later machine types.
- This allows us to remove the limitation that cpu cores had to
be inserted in linear order, and removed in LIFO order.
- This is worth merging this late in 2.7 because it will avoid
considerable future grief with management layers needing to
discover whether out-of-order hotplug is possible, amongst
other things.
- For now we do add a constraint that the initial cpu cannot be
unplugged.
* We add two extra testcases to make check, for postcopy and
drive_del on ppc64.
- Not strictly bugfixes, but safe, because they don't affect the
actual code, and increase test coverage.
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* remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-2.7-
20160729:
tests: add drive_del-test to ppc/ppc64
spapr: Prevent boot CPU core removal
ppc: Fix fault PC reporting for lve*/stve* VMX instructions
test: port postcopy test to ppc64
Revert "spapr: Ensure CPU cores are added contiguously and removed in LIFO order"
spapr: init CPUState->cpu_index with index relative to core-id
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>