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ppc patch queue 2020-09-08

This supersedes ppc-for-5.2-20200904, it fixes a couple of bugs in
that PR and adds a few extra patches.

Next pull request for qemu-5.2.  The biggest thing here is the
generalization of ARM's start-powered-off machine property to all
targets.  This can fix a number of odd little edge cases where KVM
could run vcpus before they were properly initialized.  This does
include changes to a number of files that aren't normally in my
purview.  There are suitable Acked-by lines and Peter requested this
come in via my tree, since the most pressing requirement for it is in
pseries machines with the POWER secure virtual machine facility.

In addition we have:
 * Daniel Barboza's rework and clean up of pseries machine NUMA handling
 * Correction to behaviour of the nvdimm= generic machine property on
   pseries
 * An optimization to the allocation of XIVE interrupts on KVM
 * Some fixes for confused behaviour with kernel_irqchip when both
   XICS and XIVE are in play
 * Add HIOMAP comamnd to pnv flash
 * Properly advertise the fact that spapr_vscsi doesn't handle
   hotplugged disks
 * Some assorted minor enhancements