On 23/03/2021 12:02, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
On processors that don't suppress the HDEC exceptions when LPCR[HDICE]=0,
this could help reduce needless guest exits due to leftover exceptions on
entering the guest.
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
ERROR: modpost: "decrementer_max" [arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm-hv.ko] undefined!
need this:
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_timebase = {
#define DECREMENTER_DEFAULT_MAX 0x7FFFFFFF
u64 decrementer_max = DECREMENTER_DEFAULT_MAX;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(decrementer_max);
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
index 8dd3cdb25338..68d94711811e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#include <asm/vdso/timebase.h>
/* time.c */
+extern u64 decrementer_max;
+
extern unsigned long tb_ticks_per_jiffy;
extern unsigned long tb_ticks_per_usec;
extern unsigned long tb_ticks_per_sec;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 8215430e6d5e..bb30c5ab53d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -3658,7 +3658,8 @@ static int kvmhv_load_hv_regs_and_go(struct kvm_vcpu
*vcpu, u64 time_limit,
vc->tb_offset_applied = 0;
}
- mtspr(SPRN_HDEC, 0x7fffffff);
+ /* HDEC must be at least as large as DEC, so decrementer_max fits */
+ mtspr(SPRN_HDEC, decrementer_max);
switch_mmu_to_host_radix(kvm, host_pidr);
--
Alexey
