3.19 changes for KVM:
- spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware-assisted
virtualization on the PPC970
- ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes
For x86:
- small performance improvements (though only on weird guests)
- usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav
- APICv fixes
- XSAVES support for hosts and guests. XSAVES hosts were broken because
the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM userspace
ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is going to stable.
Guest support is just a matter of exposing the feature and CPUID leaves
support.
Right now KVM is broken for PPC BookE in your tree (doesn't compile).
I'll reply to the pull request with a patch, please apply it either
before the pull request or in the merge commit, in order to preserve
bisectability somewhat.
Merge tag 'signed-kvm-ppc-next' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into HEAD
Patch queue for ppc - 2014-12-18
Highights this time around:
- Removal of HV support for 970. It became a maintenance burden and received
practically no testing. POWER8 with HV is available now, so just grab one
of those boxes if PR isn't enough for you.
- Some bug fixes and performance improvements
- Tracepoints for book3s_hv
