On 06.07.21 13:52, Cornelia Huck wrote:
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?)
Not for all hardware versions, but also no indication. The architecture
says that the HW is free to do this or not. (which makes the vsie code
simpler).
if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 8) && vcpu->kvm->arch.use_pfmfi)
vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb2 |= ECB2_PFMFI;