KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't always save PMU for guest capable of nesting

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Provide a config option that controls the workaround added by commit
63279eeb7f ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Always save guest pmu for guest
capable of nesting"). The option defaults to y for now, but is expected
to go away within a few releases.

Nested capable guests running with the earlier commit 1782663897
("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV Nested: Reflect guest PMU in-use to L0 when guest
SPRs are live") will now indicate the PMU in-use status of their guests,
which means the parent does not need to unconditionally save the PMU for
nested capable guests.

After this latest round of performance optimisations, this option costs
about 540 cycles or 10% entry/exit performance on a POWER9 nested-capable
guest.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>
References: 1782663897 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV Nested: Reflect guest PMU in-use to L0 when guest SPRs are live")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123095231.1036501-11-npiggin@gmail.com

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Nicholas Piggin 2021-11-23 19:51:48 +10:00 • committed by Michael Ellerman

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