KVM: MIPS/VZ: Support hardware guest timer

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Transfer timer state to the VZ guest context (CP0_GTOffset & guest
CP0_Count) when entering guest mode, enabling direct guest access to it,
and transfer back to soft timer when saving guest register state.

This usually allows guest code to directly read CP0_Count (via MFC0 and
RDHWR) and read/write CP0_Compare, without trapping to the hypervisor
for it to emulate the guest timer. Writing to CP0_Count or CP0_Cause.DC
is much less common and still triggers a hypervisor GPSI exception, in
which case the timer state is transferred back to an hrtimer before
emulating the write.

We are careful to prevent small amounts of drift from building up due to
undeterministic time intervals between reading of the ktime and reading
of CP0_Count. Some drift is expected however, since the system
clocksource may use a different timer to the local CP0_Count timer used
by VZ. This is permitted to prevent guest CP0_Count from appearing to go
backwards.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org

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James Hogan 2017-03-14 10:15:39 +00:00

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arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c

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arch/mips/kvm/mips.c

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arch/mips/kvm/vz.c

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