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    KVM: arm64: pmu: Reset sample period on overflow handling · 8c3252c0
    Marc Zyngier authored
    The PMU emulation code uses the perf event sample period to trigger
    the overflow detection. This works fine  for the *first* overflow
    handling, but results in a huge number of interrupts on the host,
    unrelated to the number of interrupts handled in the guest (a x20
    factor is pretty common for the cycle counter). On a slow system
    (such as a SW model), this can result in the guest only making
    forward progress at a glacial pace.
    
    It turns out that the clue is in the name. The sample period is
    exactly that: a period. And once the an overflow has occured,
    the following period should be the full width of the associated
    counter, instead of whatever the guest had initially programed.
    
    Reset the sample period to the architected value in the overflow
    handler, which now results in a number of host interrupts that is
    much closer to the number of interrupts in the guest.
    
    Fixes: b02386eb ("arm64: KVM: Add PMU overflow interrupt routing")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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