KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Implement the rest of the P9 path in C
Almost all logic is moved to C, by introducing a new in_guest mode for the P9 path that branches very early in the KVM interrupt handler to P9 exit code. The main P9 entry and exit assembly is now only about 160 lines of low level stack setup and register save/restore, plus a bad-interrupt handler. There are two motivations for this, the first is just make the code more maintainable being in C. The second is to reduce the amount of code running in a special KVM mode, "realmode". In quotes because with radix it is no longer necessarily real-mode in the MMU, but it still has to be treated specially because it may be in real-mode, and has various important registers like PID, DEC, TB, etc set to guest. This is hostile to the rest of Linux and can't use arbitrary kernel functionality or be instrumented well. This initial patch is a reasonably faithful conversion of the asm code, but it does lack any loop to return quickly back into the guest without switching out of realmode in the case of unimportant or easily handled interrupts. As explained in previous changes, handling HV interrupts very quickly in this low level realmode is not so important for P9 performance, and are important to avoid for security, observability, debugability reasons. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210528090752.3542186-15-npiggin@gmail.com
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