Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v0] ppc/spapr: Support reboot of secure pseries guest

[Bharata B Rao]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:31:00AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:36:21AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > A pseries guest can be run as a secure guest on Ultravisor-enabled
> > POWER platforms. When such a secure guest is reset, we need to
> > release/reset a few resources both on ultravisor and hypervisor side.
> > This is achieved by invoking this new ioctl KVM_PPC_SVM_OFF from the
> > machine reset path.
> > 
> > As part of this ioctl, the secure guest is essentially transitioned
> > back to normal mode so that it can reboot like a regular guest and
> > become secure again.
> > 
> > This ioctl has no effect when invoked for a normal guest.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > * The ioctl implementation in the kernel can be found as part of this 
> > patchset:
> >   https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg184366.html
> > * Updated linux-headers/linux/kvm.h here for completeness as the
> >   definition of KVM_PPC_SVM_OFF isn't yet part of upstream kernel.
> 
> The qemu change looks good to me.  To actually merge this, the support
> will need to go upstream in the kernel first, then we'll need an
> update-kernel-headers as a separate patch.

Sure, Thanks. Will post again once ioctl support is included in the
kernel.

Regards,
Bharata.