When this feature is enabled the hardware is free to interpret
specification exceptions generated by the guest, instead of causing
program interruption interceptions.
This benefits (test) programs that generate a lot of specification
exceptions (roughly 4x increase in exceptions/sec).
Interceptions will occur as before if ICTL_PINT is set,
i.e. if guest debug is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I'll additionally send kvm-unit-tests for testing this feature.
arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 ++
arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 9b4473f76e56..3a5b5084cdbe 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_sie_block {
__u8 fpf; /* 0x0060 */
#define ECB_GS 0x40
#define ECB_TE 0x10
+#define ECB_SPECI 0x08
#define ECB_SRSI 0x04
#define ECB_HOSTPROTINT 0x02
__u8 ecb; /* 0x0061 */
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index b655a7d82bf0..aadd589a3755 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -3200,6 +3200,8 @@ static int kvm_s390_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb |= ECB_SRSI;
if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 73))
vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb |= ECB_TE;
+ if (!kvm_is_ucontrol(vcpu->kvm))
+ vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb |= ECB_SPECI;
if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 8) && vcpu->kvm->arch.use_pfmfi)
vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb2 |= ECB2_PFMFI;
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
index 4002a24bc43a..acda4b6fc851 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
@@ -510,6 +510,8 @@ static int shadow_scb(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vsie_page *vsie_page)
prefix_unmapped(vsie_page);
scb_s->ecb |= ECB_TE;
}
+ /* specification exception interpretation */
+ scb_s->ecb |= scb_o->ecb & ECB_SPECI;
/* branch prediction */
if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 82))
scb_s->fpf |= scb_o->fpf & FPF_BPBC;
--
2.25.1
