Excerpts from Alexey Kardashevskiy's message of March 22, 2021 6:39 pm:
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> On 06/03/2021 02:06, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> LPCR[HDICE]=0 suppresses hypervisor decrementer exceptions on some
>> processors, so it must be enabled before HDEC is set.
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> Educating myself - is not it a processor bug when it does not suppress
> hdec exceptions with HDICE=0?
It seems to be contrary to the architecture if it does suppress them.
The HDEC exception is supposed to come into existence when the top bit
of HDEC SPR, regardless of HDICE AFAIKS.
Interrupt being taken in response to an exception existing is different.
The interrupt is suppressed when HDICE=0, which is also a requirement
of the architecture.
> Also, why do we want to enable interrupts before writing HDEC? Enabling
> it may cause an interrupt right away a
HDICE does not enable HDEC interrupts when HV=1 unless EE is 1.
In other words, HDEC interrupts are masked with EE just like DEC
interrupts when you are the hypervisor, but they ignore EE when the
guest is running (so guest can't delay them).
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> Anyway whatever the answers are, this is not changed by this patch and
> the change makes sense so
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> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Nick
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>> 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 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 1f2ba8955c6a..ffde1917ab68 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
>> @@ -3505,20 +3505,9 @@ 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;
>> @@ -3564,6 +3553,12 @@ static int kvmhv_load_hv_regs_and_go(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
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>> 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);
>>
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> --
> Alexey
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