[PATCH 15/15] KVM: ARM: Guest wait-for-interrupts (WFI) support
Christoffer Dall
c.dall at virtualopensystems.com
Sat Sep 15 11:36:05 EDT 2012
From: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>
When the guest executes a WFI instruction the operation is trapped to
KVM, which emulates the instruction in software. There is no correlation
between a guest executing a WFI instruction and actually putting the
hardware into a low-power mode, since a KVM guest is essentially a
process and the WFI instruction can be seen as 'sleep' call from this
process. Therefore, we block the vcpu when the guest excecutes a wfi
instruction and the IRQ or FIQ lines are not raised.
When an interrupt comes in through KVM_IRQ_LINE (see previous patch) we
signal the VCPU thread and unflag the VCPU to no longer wait for
interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall at virtualopensystems.com>
---
arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 10 ++++++++--
arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
arch/arm/kvm/trace.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index 06a3368..64fbec7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -318,9 +318,16 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
return -EINVAL;
}
+/**
+ * kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable - determine if the vcpu can be scheduled
+ * @v: The VCPU pointer
+ *
+ * If the guest CPU is not waiting for interrupts or an interrupt line is
+ * asserted, the CPU is by definition runnable.
+ */
int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
{
- return 0;
+ return !!v->arch.irq_lines;
}
int kvm_arch_vcpu_in_guest_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
@@ -586,7 +593,6 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
* Check conditions before entering the guest
*/
cond_resched();
-
update_vttbr(vcpu->kvm);
local_irq_disable();
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c
index 2670679..fc0fcd3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -154,9 +154,20 @@ static int kvm_instr_index(u32 instr, u32 table[][2], int table_entries)
return INSTR_NONE;
}
+/**
+ * kvm_handle_wfi - handle a wait-for-interrupts instruction executed by a guest
+ * @vcpu: the vcpu pointer
+ * @run: the kvm_run structure pointer
+ *
+ * Simply sets the wait_for_interrupts flag on the vcpu structure, which will
+ * halt execution of world-switches and schedule other host processes until
+ * there is an incoming IRQ or FIQ to the VM.
+ */
int kvm_handle_wfi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
{
- return 0;
+ trace_kvm_wfi(vcpu->arch.regs.pc);
+ kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
+ return 1;
}
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h b/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h
index 7199b58..b371138 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/trace.h
@@ -143,6 +143,22 @@ TRACE_EVENT(kvm_emulate_cp15_imp,
__entry->CRm, __entry->Op2)
);
+TRACE_EVENT(kvm_wfi,
+ TP_PROTO(unsigned long vcpu_pc),
+ TP_ARGS(vcpu_pc),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field( unsigned long, vcpu_pc )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->vcpu_pc = vcpu_pc;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("guest executed wfi at: 0x%08lx", __entry->vcpu_pc)
+);
+
+
#endif /* _TRACE_KVM_H */
#undef TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH
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