Subject: [PATCH v2 07/17] arm64: KVM: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers

From: [email-masked] (Christoffer Dall)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:08:01 +0100

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:40:39PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> GICv2 registers are *slow*. As in "terrifyingly slow". Which is bad.
> But we're equaly bad, as we make a point in accessing them even if
> we don't have any interrupt in flight.
> 
> A good solution is to first find out if we have anything useful to
> write into the GIC, and if we don't, to simply not do it. This
> involves tracking which LRs actually have something valid there.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>

nice find with the APR in this one, my review-by is still valid here.

Thanks,
-Christoffer

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h          |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c
> index e717612..5ab8d63 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c
> @@ -38,28 +38,41 @@ void __hyp_text __vgic_v2_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  
>  	nr_lr = vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.nr_lr;
>  	cpu_if->vgic_vmcr = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_VMCR);
> -	cpu_if->vgic_misr = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_MISR);
> -	eisr0  = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_EISR0);
> -	elrsr0 = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_ELRSR0);
> -	if (unlikely(nr_lr > 32)) {
> -		eisr1  = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_EISR1);
> -		elrsr1 = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_ELRSR1);
> -	} else {
> -		eisr1 = elrsr1 = 0;
> -	}
> +
> +	if (vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.live_lrs) {
> +		eisr0  = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_EISR0);
> +		elrsr0 = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_ELRSR0);
> +		cpu_if->vgic_misr = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_MISR);
> +		cpu_if->vgic_apr    = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_APR);
> +
> +		if (unlikely(nr_lr > 32)) {
> +			eisr1  = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_EISR1);
> +			elrsr1 = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_ELRSR1);
> +		} else {
> +			eisr1 = elrsr1 = 0;
> +		}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> -	cpu_if->vgic_eisr  = ((u64)eisr0 << 32) | eisr1;
> -	cpu_if->vgic_elrsr = ((u64)elrsr0 << 32) | elrsr1;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_eisr  = ((u64)eisr0 << 32) | eisr1;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_elrsr = ((u64)elrsr0 << 32) | elrsr1;
>  #else
> -	cpu_if->vgic_eisr  = ((u64)eisr1 << 32) | eisr0;
> -	cpu_if->vgic_elrsr = ((u64)elrsr1 << 32) | elrsr0;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_eisr  = ((u64)eisr1 << 32) | eisr0;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_elrsr = ((u64)elrsr1 << 32) | elrsr0;
>  #endif
> -	cpu_if->vgic_apr    = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_APR);
>  
> -	writel_relaxed(0, base + GICH_HCR);
> +		for (i = 0; i < nr_lr; i++)
> +			if (vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.live_lrs & (1UL << i))
> +				cpu_if->vgic_lr[i] = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_LR0 + (i * 4));
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < nr_lr; i++)
> -		cpu_if->vgic_lr[i] = readl_relaxed(base + GICH_LR0 + (i * 4));
> +		writel_relaxed(0, base + GICH_HCR);
> +
> +		vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.live_lrs = 0;
> +	} else {
> +		cpu_if->vgic_eisr = 0;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_elrsr = ~0UL;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_misr = 0;
> +		cpu_if->vgic_apr = 0;
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  /* vcpu is already in the HYP VA space */
> @@ -70,15 +83,30 @@ void __hyp_text __vgic_v2_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	struct vgic_dist *vgic = &kvm->arch.vgic;
>  	void __iomem *base = kern_hyp_va(vgic->vctrl_base);
>  	int i, nr_lr;
> +	u64 live_lrs = 0;
>  
>  	if (!base)
>  		return;
>  
> -	writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_hcr, base + GICH_HCR);
> -	writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_vmcr, base + GICH_VMCR);
> -	writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_apr, base + GICH_APR);
> -
>  	nr_lr = vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.nr_lr;
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < nr_lr; i++)
> -		writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_lr[i], base + GICH_LR0 + (i * 4));
> +		if (cpu_if->vgic_lr[i] & GICH_LR_STATE)
> +			live_lrs |= 1UL << i;
> +
> +	if (live_lrs) {
> +		writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_hcr, base + GICH_HCR);
> +		writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_apr, base + GICH_APR);
> +		for (i = 0; i < nr_lr; i++) {
> +			u32 val = 0;
> +
> +			if (live_lrs & (1UL << i))
> +				val = cpu_if->vgic_lr[i];
> +
> +			writel_relaxed(val, base + GICH_LR0 + (i * 4));
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	writel_relaxed(cpu_if->vgic_vmcr, base + GICH_VMCR);
> +	vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.live_lrs = live_lrs;
>  }
> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> index 13a3d53..f473fd6 100644
> --- a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ struct vgic_cpu {
>  
>  	/* Protected by the distributor's irq_phys_map_lock */
>  	struct list_head	irq_phys_map_list;
> +
> +	u64		live_lrs;
>  };
>  
>  #define LR_EMPTY	0xff
> -- 
> 2.1.4
>