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ppc patch queue for 2018-03-19

This pull request supersedes the one for 2018-03-15.  The only
difference is one patch is removed, since it exposed some code which
triggers ubsan warnings.

Here's the set of accumulated patches now that we're into soft freeze.
I've split new functionality into a ppc-for-2.13 branch, so this only
has bugfixes.  Well.. and a couple of simple cleanups to make bugfixes
easier, some test improvements and a trivial change to make command
line options more obvious.  I think those are all acceptable for soft
freeze.

x86 queue, 2018-03-12

* Intel Processor Trace support
* KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED

qemu-sparc update

ppc patch queue 2018-03-06

This pull request supersedes ppc-for-2.12-20180302 which had compile
problems with some gcc versions.  It also contains a few additional
patches.

Highlights are:
    * New Sam460ex machine type
    * Yet more fixes related to vcpu id allocation for spapr
    * Numerous macio cleanupsr
    * Some enhancements to the Spectre/Meltdown fixes for pseries,
      allowing use of a better mitigation for indirect branch based
      exploits
    * New pseries machine types with Spectre/Meltdown mitigations
      enabled (stop gap until libvirt and management understands the
      machine options)
    * A handful of other fixes

Update OpenBIOS images

ppc patch queue 2018-02-16

Highlights of this batch:
  * Conversion to TranslatorOps (Emilio Cota)
  * Further bugfixes and cleanups to vcpu id allocation for pseries
    (Greg Kurz)
  * Another bugfix for HPT resizing (Daniel Henrique-Barboza)
  * Macintosh CUDA cleanups (Mark Cave-Ayland)
  * Further tweaks to Spectre/Meltdown mitigations (Suraj Singh)

2.11.1

ppc patch queue 2018-02-12

Here's the accumulatead ppc and pseries related patches for the last
while.  Highlights are:
    * A number of Macintosh / CUDA cleanups from Mark Cave-Ayland
    * An important bug fix (missing "break;") for
      H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS
    * Yet another fix for SMT mode handling
    * Assorted other cleanups and fixes

ppc patch queue 2018-01-29

Here's another batch of patches for ppc, spapr and related things.
Higlights:

  * Implement (with a bunch of necessary infrastructure) a hypercall
    to let guests properly apply Spectre and Meltdown workarounds.
  * Convert a number of old devices to trace events
  * Fix some bugs

ppc patch queue 2018-01-21

This request supersedes the one from 2018-01-19.  The only difference
is that the patch deprecating ppcemb-softmmu, and thereby creating
many annying warnings from make check has been removed.

Highlights are:
  * Significant TCG speedup by optimizing cmp generation
  * Fix a regression caused by recent change to set compat mode on
    hotplugged cpus
  * Cleanup of default configs
  * Some implementation of msgsnd/msgrcv instructions for server chips

ppc patch queue 2017-01-17

Another pull request for ppc related patches.  The most interesting
thing here is the new capabilities framework for the pseries machine
type.  This gives us better handling of several existing
incompatibilities between TCG, PR and HV KVM, as well as new ones that
arise with POWER9.  Further, it will allow reasonable handling of the
advertisement of features necessary to mitigate the recent CVEs
(Spectre and Meltdown).

In addition there's:
     * Improvide handling of different "vsmt" modes
     * Significant enhancements to the "pnv" machine type
     * Assorted other bugfixes

ppc patch queue 2018-01-11

This pull request supersedes ppc-for-2.12-20180108 and several before
it.  The earlier pull request included a patch which exposed a bug in
the ARM TCG backend.  I've pulled that out and will repost once the
ARM bug is fixed (a patch has been posted by Richard Henderson).

Higlights from this series:
  * SLOF update
  * Several new devices for embedded platforms
  * Fix to correctly set compatiblity mode for hotplugged CPUs
  * dtc compile fix for older MacOS versions

2.10.2

ppc patch queue 2017-12-15

First pull request for qemu-2.12.  This has quite a bit of stuff
accumulated while 2.11 was finalizing.  Highlights are:

  * Some preliminary work towards implementing the "XIVE" POWER9
    interrupt controller
  * Some fixes for problems during reboot with MTTCG
  * A substantial TCG performance improvement via
    tcg_get_lookup_and_goto_ptr
  * Numerous assorted cleanups and bugfixes that weren't urgent enough
    for 2.11

v2.11.0 release

v2.11.0-rc5 release

v2.11.0-rc4 release