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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Set RWMR on POWER8 so PURR/SPURR count correctly · 7aa15842
    Paul Mackerras authored
    Although Linux doesn't use PURR and SPURR ((Scaled) Processor
    Utilization of Resources Register), other OSes depend on them.
    On POWER8 they count at a rate depending on whether the VCPU is
    idle or running, the activity of the VCPU, and the value in the
    RWMR (Region-Weighting Mode Register).  Hardware expects the
    hypervisor to update the RWMR when a core is dispatched to reflect
    the number of online VCPUs in the vcore.
    
    This adds code to maintain a count in the vcore struct indicating
    how many VCPUs are online.  In kvmppc_run_core we use that count
    to set the RWMR register on POWER8.  If the core is split because
    of a static or dynamic micro-threading mode, we use the value for
    8 threads.  The RWMR value is not relevant when the host is
    executing because Linux does not use the PURR or SPURR register,
    so we don't bother saving and restoring the host value.
    
    For the sake of old userspace which does not set the KVM_REG_PPC_ONLINE
    register, we set online to 1 if it was 0 at the time of a KVM_RUN
    ioctl.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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