Re: [PATCH] KVM: booke: Do Not start decrementer when SPRN_DEC set 0

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On 20.10.2011, at 10:43, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-ppc-
>> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Graf
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:40 PM
>> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
>> Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bharatb.yadav@xxxxxxxxx; Bhushan Bharat-
>> R65777
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: booke: Do Not start decrementer when SPRN_DEC
>> set 0
>> 
>> 
>> On 17.10.2011, at 20:37, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
>> 
>>> As per specification the decrementer interrupt not happen when DEC is
>> written with 0. So we should not start hrtimer with timeout = 0 as well.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c |    8 ++++----
>>> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
>>> index 141dce3..8af3bad 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
>>> @@ -70,14 +70,14 @@
>>> #define OP_STHU 45
>>> 
>>> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
>>> -static int kvmppc_dec_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> +static bool kvmppc_dec_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> {
>>> -	return 1;
>>> +	return true;
>> 
>> It's not necessary to change it to bool. The function will be inlined
>> anyways.
>> 
>>> }
>>> #else
>>> -static int kvmppc_dec_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> +static bool kvmppc_dec_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> {
>>> -	return vcpu->arch.tcr & TCR_DIE;
>>> +	return (vcpu->arch.tcr & TCR_DIE) && !vcpu->arch.dec;
>> 
>> This means we declare the dec as enabled only when dec==0, no?
> 
> I think we can change the name of this function as kvmppc_dec_runnable() ?

It'd still be wrong. You're declaring the DEC as running when dec == 0, not when dec != 0.


Alex

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