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    KVM: MIPS/VZ: Support hardware guest timer · f4474d50
    James Hogan authored
    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: default avatarJames 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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