linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 05/14] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add support for cpu

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Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:49:21 +0000
From:   Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Raghavendra Rao Anata <rananta@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 05/14] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add support for cpu_relax

Implement the guest helper routine, cpu_relax(), to yield
the processor to other tasks.

The function was derived from
arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/processor.h.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
index 93797783abad..265054c24481 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ void vm_install_exception_handler(struct kvm_vm *vm,
 void vm_install_sync_handler(struct kvm_vm *vm,
 		int vector, int ec, handler_fn handler);
 
+static inline void cpu_relax(void)
+{
+	asm volatile("yield" ::: "memory");
+}
+
 #define isb()		asm volatile("isb" : : : "memory")
 #define dsb(opt)	asm volatile("dsb " #opt : : : "memory")
 #define dmb(opt)	asm volatile("dmb " #opt : : : "memory")
-- 
2.33.0.309.g3052b89438-goog