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KVM: ppc: Handle guest idle by emulating MSR[WE] writes

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This reduces host CPU usage when the guest is idle. However, the guest must
set MSR[WE] in its idle loop, which Linux did not do until 2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Hollis Blanchard
2008-05-04 14:44:44 +03:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent 3fe913e7c5
commit 45c5eb67da
4 changed files with 24 additions and 3 deletions
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include/asm-powerpc/kvm_host.h
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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
u32 emulated_inst_exits;
u32 dec_exits;
u32 ext_intr_exits;
u32 halt_wakeup;
};
struct tlbe {
include/asm-powerpc/kvm_ppc.h
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@@ -77,12 +77,17 @@ static inline void kvmppc_clear_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int exception)
clear_bit(priority, &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
}
/* Helper function for "full" MSR writes. No need to call this if only EE is
* changing. */
static inline void kvmppc_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 new_msr)
{
if ((new_msr & MSR_PR) != (vcpu->arch.msr & MSR_PR))
kvmppc_mmu_priv_switch(vcpu, new_msr & MSR_PR);
vcpu->arch.msr = new_msr;
if (vcpu->arch.msr & MSR_WE)
kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
}
#endif /* __POWERPC_KVM_PPC_H__ */