From: Guo Ren <guo...@linux.alibaba.com>

Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations which
allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock contention.

Reviewed-by: Leonardo Bras <leob...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guo...@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guo...@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  2 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/qspinlock_paravirt.c          | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b7794c96d91e..4aff81d741e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3927,7 +3927,7 @@
                        as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
                        XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
 
-       nopvspin        [X86,XEN,KVM]
+       nopvspin        [X86,XEN,KVM,RISC-V]
                        Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations
                        which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock
                        contention.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/qspinlock_paravirt.c 
b/arch/riscv/kernel/qspinlock_paravirt.c
index 7d1b99412222..4b04c93c4b9b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/qspinlock_paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/qspinlock_paravirt.c
@@ -43,8 +43,21 @@ EXPORT_STATIC_CALL(pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath);
 DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(pv_queued_spin_unlock, native_queued_spin_unlock);
 EXPORT_STATIC_CALL(pv_queued_spin_unlock);
 
+static bool nopvspin __initdata;
+static __init int parse_nopvspin(char *arg)
+{
+       nopvspin = true;
+       return 0;
+}
+early_param("nopvspin", parse_nopvspin);
+
 void __init pv_qspinlock_init(void)
 {
+       if (nopvspin) {
+               pr_info("PV qspinlocks disabled\n");
+               return;
+       }
+
        if (num_possible_cpus() == 1)
                return;
 
-- 
2.40.1


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