ppc patch queue for 2019-03-10
This pull requests supersedes ppc-for-4.0-20190310. Changes are:
* Fixed a bunch of minor style problems
* Suppressed warnings about Spectre/Meltdown mitigations with TCG
* Added one more patch, a preliminary fix towards the not-quite-ready
support for NVLink VFIO passthrough.
This is a final pull request before the 4.0 soft freeze. Changes
include:
* A Great Renaming to use camel case properly in spapr code
* Optimization of some vector instructions
* Support for POWER9 cpus in the powernv machine
* Fixes a regression from the last pull request in handling VSX
instructions with mixed operands from the FPR and VMX parts of the
register array
* Optimization hack to avoid scanning all the (empty) entries on a
new IOMMU window
* Add FSL I2C controller model for E500
* Support for KVM acceleration of the H_PAGE_INIT hypercall on spapr
* Update u-boot image for E500
* Enable Specre/Meltdown mitigations by default on the new machine type
* Enable large decrementer support for POWER9