[PATCH v6 11/12] ARM: KVM: Guest wait-for-interrupts (WFI) support

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When the guest executes a WFI instruction the operation is trapped to
KVM, which emulates the instruction in software. There is no correlation
between a guest executing a WFI instruction and actually putting the
hardware into a low-power mode, since a KVM guest is essentially a
process and the WFI instruction can be seen as 'sleep' call from this
process. Therefore, we flag the VCPU to be in wait_for_interrupts mode
and call the main KVM function kvm_vcpu_block() function. This function
will put the thread on a wait-queue and call schedule.

When an interrupt comes in through KVM_IRQ_LINE (see previous patch) we
signal the VCPU thread and unflag the VCPU to no longer wait for
interrupts. All calls to kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() result in a call to
kvm_vcpu_block() as long as the VCPU is in wfi-mode.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c     |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 arch/arm/kvm/trace.h   |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index 26fee60..3772847 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -268,9 +268,17 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+/**
+ * kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable - determine if the vcpu can be scheduled
+ * @v:		The VCPU pointer
+ *
+ * If the guest CPU is not waiting for interrupts (or waiting and
+ * an interrupt is pending) then it is by definition runnable.
+ */
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return !!v->arch.irq_lines ||
+		!v->arch.wait_for_interrupts;
 }
 
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_in_guest_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
@@ -448,6 +456,9 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 			break;
 		}
 
+		if (vcpu->arch.wait_for_interrupts)
+			kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
+
 		/*
 		 * Enter the guest
 		 */
@@ -520,6 +531,8 @@ static int kvm_arch_vm_ioctl_irq_line(struct kvm *kvm,
 	 * trigger a world-switch round on the running physical CPU to set the
 	 * virtual IRQ/FIQ fields in the HCR appropriately.
 	 */
+	if (irq_level->level)
+		vcpu->arch.wait_for_interrupts = 0;
 	kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c
index 77ccc2b..20269f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -335,8 +335,20 @@ unsupp_err_out:
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+/**
+ * kvm_handle_wfi - handle a wait-for-interrupts instruction executed by a guest
+ * @vcpu:	the vcpu pointer
+ * @run:	the kvm_run structure pointer
+ *
+ * Simply sets the wait_for_interrupts flag on the vcpu structure, which will
+ * halt execution of world-switches and schedule other host processes until
+ * there is an incoming IRQ or FIQ to the VM.
+ */
 int kvm_handle_wfi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 {
+	trace_kvm_wfi(vcpu->arch.regs.pc);
+	if (!vcpu->arch.irq_lines)
+		vcpu->arch.wait_for_interrupts = 1;
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h b/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h
index bd3a6cc..fc68394 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h
@@ -90,6 +90,22 @@ TRACE_EVENT(kvm_emulate_cp15_imp,
 			__entry->CRm, __entry->Op2)
 );
 
+TRACE_EVENT(kvm_wfi,
+	TP_PROTO(unsigned long vcpu_pc),
+	TP_ARGS(vcpu_pc),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(	unsigned long,	vcpu_pc		)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->vcpu_pc		= vcpu_pc;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("guest executed wfi at: 0x%08lx", __entry->vcpu_pc)
+);
+
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_KVM_H */
 
 #undef TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH

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