MIPS: KVM: Dynamically choose scratch registers
authorJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:34:45 +0000 (17:34 +0100)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 5 Jul 2016 14:08:54 +0000 (16:08 +0200)
commit1e5217f54251ddd339e00a0b30f126589737d467
tree3e3b80abbf3ff14434c8e2225db39c7dceb29572
parent025014e3fb8f6afab92d3050c3423e2b1ffcbc84
MIPS: KVM: Dynamically choose scratch registers

Scratch cop0 registers are needed by KVM to be able to save/restore all
the GPRs, including k0/k1, and for storing the VCPU pointer. However no
registers are universally suitable for these purposes, so the decision
should be made at runtime.

Until now, we've used DDATA_LO to store the VCPU pointer, and ErrorEPC
as a temporary. It could be argued that this is abuse of those
registers, and DDATA_LO is known not to be usable on certain
implementations (Cavium Octeon). If KScratch registers are present, use
them instead.

We save & restore the temporary register in addition to the VCPU pointer
register when using a KScratch register for it, as it may be used for
normal host TLB handling too.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/mips/kvm/entry.c
arch/mips/kvm/mips.c