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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] KVM: arm64: Make ICH_VTR_EL2 accesses an inlined literal
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:07:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260721170754.3150521-1-maz@kernel.org> (raw)

I'm reposting this early as there were so many issues to the original
posting that I decided to deviate from my own rules... Bite me.

This is the second version of this series I initially sent as [1],
which aims at removing the large number of traps that ICH_VTR_EL2
generates in NV environments, leading to pointless overheads.

By moving from a sysreg access to a patched constant, running an L3
workload with a a healthy amount of IO results in a 5% reduction of
wall-clock time from a baseline without this series.

* From v1 [1]:

  - Move the "broken SEIS" detection to an erratum, something it
    should always have been, so that vgic_broken_seis() doesn't have
    to use non-noinstr function calls (sashiko)

  - Drop WARN_ON() in the patch function (sashiko)

  - Switch from this_cpu_has_cap() to cpus_have_cap() (shashiko)

  - Reorganise the patches so that some of the code movements are less
    surprising to our favourite Artificial Idiot

  - Simplify __vgic_v3_get_config() to only return the MMIO attribute
    as a boolean, dropping all form of GICv5 support which made little
    sense

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260720132220.2143486-1-maz@kernel.org

Marc Zyngier (6):
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Make vtr_to_* helpers use architectural field
    symbols
  KVM: arm64: Move GICv3 broken SEIS implementation detection to a CPU
    errrata
  KVM: arm64: Add a helper providing an inlined literal value for
    ICH_VTR_EL2
  KVM: arm64: Convert most ICH_VTR_EL2 accesses to inlined literal value
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Simplify initial GICv3 configuration sampling
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Kill kvm_vgic_global_state.ich_vtr_el2

 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c   | 17 +++++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h   |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c  | 43 +++++----------
 arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c          |  3 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-sys-reg-v3.c |  8 +--
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c    | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v5.c    |  5 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h       | 19 ++++++-
 arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps         |  1 +
 include/kvm/arm_vgic.h           |  2 -
 11 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)

-- 
2.47.3



             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-21 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-21 17:07 Marc Zyngier [this message]
2026-07-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Make vtr_to_* helpers use architectural field symbols Marc Zyngier
2026-07-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: arm64: Move GICv3 broken SEIS implementation detection to a CPU errrata Marc Zyngier
2026-07-21 17:57   ` Oliver Upton
2026-07-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: arm64: Add a helper providing an inlined literal value for ICH_VTR_EL2 Marc Zyngier
2026-07-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: arm64: Convert most ICH_VTR_EL2 accesses to inlined literal value Marc Zyngier
2026-07-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Simplify initial GICv3 configuration sampling Marc Zyngier
2026-07-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Kill kvm_vgic_global_state.ich_vtr_el2 Marc Zyngier
2026-07-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] KVM: arm64: Make ICH_VTR_EL2 accesses an inlined literal Oliver Upton

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