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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Virtualize doorbell facility on POWER9 · 57900694
    Paul Mackerras authored
    On POWER9, we no longer have the restriction that we had on POWER8
    where all threads in a core have to be in the same partition, so
    the CPU threads are now independent.  However, we still want to be
    able to run guests with a virtual SMT topology, if only to allow
    migration of guests from POWER8 systems to POWER9.
    
    A guest that has a virtual SMT mode greater than 1 will expect to
    be able to use the doorbell facility; it will expect the msgsndp
    and msgclrp instructions to work appropriately and to be able to read
    sensible values from the TIR (thread identification register) and
    DPDES (directed privileged doorbell exception status) special-purpose
    registers.  However, since each CPU thread is a separate sub-processor
    in POWER9, these instructions and registers can only be used within
    a single CPU thread.
    
    In order for these instructions to appear to act correctly according
    to the guest's virtual SMT mode, we have to trap and emulate them.
    We cause them to trap by clearing the HFSCR_MSGP bit in the HFSCR
    register.  The emulation is triggered by the hypervisor facility
    unavailable interrupt that occurs when the guest uses them.
    
    To cause a doorbell interrupt to occur within the guest, we set the
    DPDES register to 1.  If the guest has interrupts enabled, the CPU
    will generate a doorbell interrupt and clear the DPDES register in
    hardware.  The DPDES hardware register for the guest is saved in the
    vcpu->arch.vcore->dpdes field.  Since this gets written by the guest
    exit code, other VCPUs wishing to cause a doorbell interrupt don't
    write that field directly, but instead set a vcpu->arch.doorbell_request
    flag.  This is consumed and set to 0 by the guest entry code, which
    then sets DPDES to 1.
    
    Emulating reads of the DPDES register is somewhat involved, because
    it requires reading the doorbell pending interrupt status of all of the
    VCPU threads in the virtual core, and if any of those VCPUs are
    running, their doorbell status is only up-to-date in the hardware
    DPDES registers of the CPUs where they are running.  In order to get
    a reasonable approximation of the current doorbell status, we send
    those CPUs an IPI, causing an exit from the guest which will update
    the vcpu->arch.vcore->dpdes field.  We then use that value in
    constructing the emulated DPDES register value.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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