[PATCH v2 7/9] powerpc/64s: do not allocate lppaca if we are not virtualized
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Sat Oct 14 14:54:44 AEDT 2017
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:47:59 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:33:44AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > The "lppaca" is a structure registered with the hypervisor. This
> > is unnecessary when running on non-virtualised platforms. One field
> > from the lppaca (pmcregs_in_use) is also used by the host, so move
> > the host part out into the paca (lppaca field is still updated in
> > guest mode).
>
> There is an error in the patch, see below...
>
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > index c52184a8efdf..b838348e3a2b 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > @@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
> > mtspr SPRN_SPRG_VDSO_WRITE,r3
> >
> > /* Reload the host's PMU registers */
> > - ld r3, PACALPPACAPTR(r13) /* is the host using the PMU? */
> > - lbz r4, LPPACA_PMCINUSE(r3)
> > + lbz r4, PACA_PMCINUSE(r13) /* is the host using the PMU? */
> > cmpwi r4, 0
> > beq 23f /* skip if not */
> > BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> > @@ -1671,7 +1670,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
> > mtspr SPRN_MMCRA, r7
> > isync
> > beq 21f /* if no VPA, save PMU stuff anyway */
> > - lbz r7, LPPACA_PMCINUSE(r8)
> > + lbz r7, PACA_PMCINUSE(r13)
>
> We really do need to check the guest's flag not the host's here, since
> we're deciding whether to save the PMU state to the vcpu struct.
Okay I'll fix that up.
Thanks,
Nick
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