On Sat, Sep 23 2017 at 2:42:06 am BST, Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now when both the vtimer and the ptimer when using both the in-kernel
> vgic emulation and a userspace IRQ chip are driven by the timer signals
> and at the vcpu load/put boundaries, instead of recomputing the timer
> state at every entry/exit to/from the guest, we can get entirely rid of
> the flush hwstate function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h | 1 -
> virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 24 ------------------------
> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> index 8e5ed54..af29563 100644
> --- a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ int kvm_timer_hyp_init(void);
> int kvm_timer_enable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> int kvm_timer_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void kvm_timer_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> -void kvm_timer_flush_hwstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> bool kvm_timer_should_notify_user(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void kvm_timer_update_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> index aa18a5d..f92459a 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -302,12 +302,6 @@ static void kvm_timer_update_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> struct arch_timer_context *vtimer = vcpu_vtimer(vcpu);
> struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
>
> - /*
> - * If userspace modified the timer registers via SET_ONE_REG before
> - * the vgic was initialized, we mustn't set the vtimer->irq.level value
> - * because the guest would never see the interrupt. Instead wait
> - * until we call this function from kvm_timer_flush_hwstate.
> - */
> if (unlikely(!timer->enabled))
> return;
>
> @@ -493,24 +487,6 @@ bool kvm_timer_should_notify_user(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> ptimer->irq.level != plevel;
> }
>
> -/**
> - * kvm_timer_flush_hwstate - prepare timers before running the vcpu
> - * @vcpu: The vcpu pointer
> - *
> - * Check if the virtual timer has expired while we were running in the host,
> - * and inject an interrupt if that was the case, making sure the timer is
> - * masked or disabled on the host so that we keep executing. Also schedule a
> - * software timer for the physical timer if it is enabled.
> - */
> -void kvm_timer_flush_hwstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> -{
> - struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;
> - struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
> -
> - if (unlikely(!timer->enabled))
> - return;
> -}
> -
> void kvm_timer_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> index 132d39a..14c50d1 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> @@ -656,7 +656,6 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
>
> local_irq_disable();
>
> - kvm_timer_flush_hwstate(vcpu);
> kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate(vcpu);
>
> /*
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
M.
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