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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
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.