[PATCH v2 04/22] target/riscv: Improve fidelity of guest external interrupts

[Anup Patel]

The guest external interrupts for external interrupt controller are
not delivered to the guest running under hypervisor on time. This
results in a guest having sluggish response to serial console input
and other I/O events. To improve timely delivery of guest external
interrupts, we check and inject interrupt upon every sret instruction.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
---
 target/riscv/op_helper.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/riscv/op_helper.c b/target/riscv/op_helper.c
index ee7c24efe7..4c995c239e 100644
--- a/target/riscv/op_helper.c
+++ b/target/riscv/op_helper.c
@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ target_ulong helper_sret(CPURISCVState *env, target_ulong 
cpu_pc_deb)
 
     riscv_cpu_set_mode(env, prev_priv);
 
+    /*
+     * QEMU does not promptly deliver guest external interrupts
+     * to a guest running on a hypervisor which in-turn is running
+     * on QEMU. We make dummy call to riscv_cpu_update_mip() upon
+     * every sret instruction so that QEMU pickup guest external
+     * interrupts sooner.
+     */
+     riscv_cpu_update_mip(env_archcpu(env), 0, 0);
+
     return retpc;
 }
 
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