[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Memory locking is only required for KVM guests on ppc64

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 11:18:11 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:57:59AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>Due to the way the hardware works, KVM on ppc64 always requires
>memory locking; however, that is not the case for non-KVM ppc64
>guests, eg. ppc64 guests that are running on x86_64 with TCG.
>
>Only require memory locking for ppc64 guests if they are using
>KVM or, as it's the case for all architectures, they have host
>devices assigned using VFIO.
>

How about ppc64 TCG on ppc64?  Not needed as well?
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