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 <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
index fd09b4797fd7..69b6be617772 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/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 98bdd96141f2..026b3c0b648c 100644
--- 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); /* for KVM HDEC */
static int decrementer_set_next_event(unsigned long evt,
struct clock_event_device *dev);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c
index 83f592eadcd2..63afd277c5f3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c
@@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ int kvmhv_vcpu_entry_p9(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit, unsigned long lpc
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);
save_clear_guest_mmu(kvm, vcpu);
switch_mmu_to_host(kvm, host_pidr);
--
2.23.0
