Excerpts from Fabiano Rosas's message of July 1, 2021 3:51 am: > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Some of the DAWR SPR access is already predicated on dawr_enabled(), >> apply this to the remainder of the accesses. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++----------- >> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c >> index 7aa72efcac6c..f305d1d6445c 100644 >> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_p9_entry.c >> @@ -638,13 +638,16 @@ int kvmhv_vcpu_entry_p9(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit, unsigned long lpc >> >> host_hfscr = mfspr(SPRN_HFSCR); >> host_ciabr = mfspr(SPRN_CIABR); >> - host_dawr0 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWR0); >> - host_dawrx0 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWRX0); >> host_psscr = mfspr(SPRN_PSSCR); >> host_pidr = mfspr(SPRN_PID); >> - if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DAWR1)) { >> - host_dawr1 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWR1); >> - host_dawrx1 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWRX1); >> + >> + if (dawr_enabled()) { >> + host_dawr0 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWR0); >> + host_dawrx0 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWRX0); >> + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DAWR1)) { >> + host_dawr1 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWR1); >> + host_dawrx1 = mfspr(SPRN_DAWRX1); > > The userspace needs to enable DAWR1 via KVM_CAP_PPC_DAWR1. That cap is > not even implemented in QEMU currently, so we never allow the guest to > set vcpu->arch.dawr1. If we check for kvm->arch.dawr1_enabled instead of > the CPU feature, we could shave some more time here. Ah good point, yes let's do that. Thanks, Nick