Use hrtimers for the decrementer
Following S390's good example we should use hrtimers for the decrementer too!
This patch converts the timer from the old mechanism to hrtimers.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index a06ecc3..692c370 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -208,10 +209,25 @@
}
}
+/*
+ * low level hrtimer wake routine. Because this runs in hardirq context
+ * we schedule a tasklet to do the real work.
+ */
+enum hrtimer_restart kvmppc_decrementer_wakeup(struct hrtimer *timer)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
+
+ vcpu = container_of(timer, struct kvm_vcpu, arch.dec_timer);
+ tasklet_schedule(&vcpu->arch.tasklet);
+
+ return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
+}
+
int kvm_arch_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- setup_timer(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer, kvmppc_decrementer_func,
- (unsigned long)vcpu);
+ hrtimer_init(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer, CLOCK_REALTIME, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+ tasklet_init(&vcpu->arch.tasklet, kvmppc_decrementer_func, (ulong)vcpu);
+ vcpu->arch.dec_timer.function = kvmppc_decrementer_wakeup;
return 0;
}