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authorAnup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>2025-07-07 06:53:43 +0300
committerAnup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>2025-07-11 16:00:17 +0300
commit57f576e860d3a3582edb5064db9f0c95558ca5f4 (patch)
tree2b9737f22d3647f3d4c3a94f8e3da5e8db82b01b
parentd7b8f8e20813f0179d8ef519541a3527e7661d3a (diff)
downloadlinux-57f576e860d3a3582edb5064db9f0c95558ca5f4.tar.xz
RISC-V: KVM: Disable vstimecmp before exiting to user-space
If VS-timer expires when no VCPU running on a host CPU then WFI executed by such host CPU will be effective NOP resulting in no power savings. This is as-per RISC-V Privileged specificaiton which says: "WFI is also required to resume execution for locally enabled interrupts pending at any privilege level, regardless of the global interrupt enable at each privilege level." To address the above issue, vstimecmp CSR must be set to -1UL over here when VCPU is scheduled-out or exits to user space. Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> Fixes: 8f5cb44b1bae ("RISC-V: KVM: Support sstc extension") Fixes: cea8896bd936 ("RISC-V: KVM: Fix kvm_riscv_vcpu_timer_pending() for Sstc") Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> Closes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2112578 Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com> Reviewed-by: Nutty Liu <liujingqi@lanxincomputing.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250707035345.17494-2-apatel@ventanamicro.com Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c
index ff672fa71fcc..85a7262115e1 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c
@@ -345,8 +345,24 @@ void kvm_riscv_vcpu_timer_save(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
/*
* The vstimecmp CSRs are saved by kvm_riscv_vcpu_timer_sync()
* upon every VM exit so no need to save here.
+ *
+ * If VS-timer expires when no VCPU running on a host CPU then
+ * WFI executed by such host CPU will be effective NOP resulting
+ * in no power savings. This is because as-per RISC-V Privileged
+ * specificaiton: "WFI is also required to resume execution for
+ * locally enabled interrupts pending at any privilege level,
+ * regardless of the global interrupt enable at each privilege
+ * level."
+ *
+ * To address the above issue, vstimecmp CSR must be set to -1UL
+ * over here when VCPU is scheduled-out or exits to user space.
*/
+ csr_write(CSR_VSTIMECMP, -1UL);
+#if defined(CONFIG_32BIT)
+ csr_write(CSR_VSTIMECMPH, -1UL);
+#endif
+
/* timer should be enabled for the remaining operations */
if (unlikely(!t->init_done))
return;