[PATCH v4 23/46] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Move setting HDEC after switching to guest LPCR

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 12:02:42 AEDT 2021


LPCR[HDICE]=0 suppresses hypervisor decrementer exceptions on some
processors, so it must be enabled before HDEC is set.

Rather than set it in the host LPCR then setting HDEC, move the HDEC
update to after the guest MMU context (including LPCR) is loaded.
There shouldn't be much concern with delaying HDEC by some 10s or 100s
of nanoseconds by setting it a bit later.

Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 19 +++++++------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 17739aaee3d8..8215430e6d5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -3540,20 +3540,9 @@ static int kvmhv_load_hv_regs_and_go(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
 		host_dawrx1 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWRX1);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * P8 and P9 suppress the HDEC exception when LPCR[HDICE] = 0,
-	 * so set HDICE before writing HDEC.
-	 */
-	mtspr(SPRN_LPCR, kvm->arch.host_lpcr | LPCR_HDICE);
-	isync();
-
 	hdec = time_limit - mftb();
-	if (hdec < 0) {
-		mtspr(SPRN_LPCR, kvm->arch.host_lpcr);
-		isync();
+	if (hdec < 0)
 		return BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_HV_DECREMENTER;
-	}
-	mtspr(SPRN_HDEC, hdec);
 
 	if (vc->tb_offset) {
 		u64 new_tb = mftb() + vc->tb_offset;
@@ -3599,6 +3588,12 @@ static int kvmhv_load_hv_regs_and_go(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
 
 	switch_mmu_to_guest_radix(kvm, vcpu, lpcr);
 
+	/*
+	 * P9 suppresses the HDEC exception when LPCR[HDICE] = 0,
+	 * so set guest LPCR (with HDICE) before writing HDEC.
+	 */
+	mtspr(SPRN_HDEC, hdec);
+
 	mtspr(SPRN_SRR0, vcpu->arch.shregs.srr0);
 	mtspr(SPRN_SRR1, vcpu->arch.shregs.srr1);
 
-- 
2.23.0



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