On Tue, Jul 06 2021, Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/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; Does this exist for any hardware version (i.e. not guarded by a cpu feature?) > > if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 8) && vcpu->kvm->arch.use_pfmfi) > vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb2 |= ECB2_PFMFI;
