We had an arbitrary limitation in mtmsrd L=1 that kept us from using r30 and
r31 as input registers. Let's get rid of that and get more potential speedups!
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
So far we've been restricting ourselves to r0-r29 as registers an mtmsr
instruction could use. This was bad, as there are some code paths in
Linux actually using r30.
So let's instead handle all registers gracefully and get rid of that
stupid limitation
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This is the guest side of the mtsr acceleration. Using this a guest can now
call mtsrin with almost no overhead as long as it ensures that it only uses
it with (MSR_IR|MSR_DR) == 0. Linux does that, so we're good.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
On BookE the preferred way to write the EE bit is the wrteei instruction. It
already encodes the EE bit in the instruction.
So in order to get BookE some speedups as well, let's also PV'nize thati
instruction.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There is also a form of mtmsr where all bits need to be addressed. While the
PPC64 Linux kernel behaves resonably well here, on PPC32 we do not have an
L=1 form. It does mtmsr even for simple things like only changing EE.
So we need to hook into that one as well and check for a mask of bits that we
deem safe to change from within guest context.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
The PowerPC ISA has a special instruction for mtmsr that only changes the EE
and RI bits, namely the L=1 form.
Since that one is reasonably often occuring and simple to implement, let's
go with this first. Writing EE=0 is always just a store. Doing EE=1 also
requires us to check for pending interrupts and if necessary exit back to the
hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
When we hook an instruction we need to make sure we don't clobber any of
the registers at that point. So we write them out to scratch space in the
magic page. To make sure we don't fall into a race with another piece of
hooked code, we need to disable interrupts.
To make the later patches and code in general easier readable, let's introduce
a set of defines that save and restore r30, r31 and cr. Let's also define some
helpers to read the lower 32 bits of a 64 bit field on 32 bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We have all the hypervisor pieces in place now, but the guest parts are still
missing.
This patch implements basic awareness of KVM when running Linux as guest. It
doesn't do anything with it yet though.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
