Re: [RFC] KVM: optimize the kvm_vcpu_on_spin

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Tue Aug 01 2017 - 02:51:16 EST


On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:32:26 +0200
David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This one should work for s390x, no caching (or special access patterns
> like on x86) needed:
>
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> @@ -2447,6 +2447,11 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> return kvm_s390_vcpu_has_irq(vcpu, 0);
> }
>
> +bool kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> + return !(vcpu->arch.sie_block->gpsw.mask & PSW_MASK_PSTATE);
> +}
> +
> void kvm_s390_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> atomic_or(PROG_BLOCK_SIE, &vcpu->arch.sie_block->prog20);

Yes, that should work.