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For each of the accelerations, certain virtual processor control and architectural state is
managed directly by hardware/firmware, and hence must be maintained in the VPD,
and synchronization is required when the VMM reads or writes this state in the VPD.
Some entries must be maintained in the VPD independent of any accelerations. (These
are marked as [always].) See
for details on which VPD state is used with
each of the accelerations. See
Section 11.11, “PAL Virtualization Services” on
for a description of the synchronization services.
11.7.4.2.1 Virtual External Interrupt Optimization
The virtual external interrupt optimization allows the VMM to specify the virtual highest
priority pending interrupt so that a virtual external interrupt is raised on changes of
vtpr or vpsr.i only when that the virtual highest priority pending interrupt is unmasked.
For details on virtual external interrupts, see
“Virtual External Interrupt vector
.
The virtual external interrupt optimization is enabled by the a_int bit in the
Virtualization Acceleration Control (
vac
) field in the VPD. When this optimization is
enabled, the VMM specifies the virtual highest priority pending interrupt (vhpi) through
the PAL_VPS_SET_PENDING_INTERRUPT service described in
Virtualization Service Specifications” on page 2:488
. If this optimization is disabled,
processor behavior is undefined if PAL_VPS_SET_PENDING_INTERRUPT is invoked.
When this optimization is enabled, execution of
rsm
and
ssm
instructions
1
, with
PSR.vm==1, which modify only vpsr.i will not intercept to the VMM and vpsr.i is
updated with the new value, unless a fault condition is detected (see
for
details).
Table 11-26. Virtualization Accelerations Summary
Optimization
Virtualization
Acceleration
Control (
vac
)
a
a. The Virtualization Acceleration Control (
vac
) field resides in the Virtual Processor Descriptor (VPD), see
Section 11.7.1, “Virtual Processor Descriptor (VPD)” on page 2:325
for details.
Description
Virtual External Interrupt Optimization
a_int
Interruption Control Register Read Optimization
a_from_int_cr
Interruption Control Register Write Optimization
a_to_int_cr
MOV-from-PSR Optimization
a_from_psr
MOV-from-CPUID Optimization
a_from_cpuid
Cover Optimization
a_cover
Bank Switch Optimization
a_bsw
Virtualize all
probe
instructions
a_all_probes
Virtualize selected
probe
instructions
a_select_probes
Test Feature Optimization
a_tf
Interruption Collection and User Mask Optimization
a_ic_um
1.
The execution of
rsm
and
ssm
instructions with PSR.vm==1 is affected by both the virtual external
interrupt optimization (a_int) and the interruption collection and user mask optimization (a_ic_um).
Software can enable or disable both optimizations together, or enable each optimization indepen-
dently.
Section 11.7.4.4.1, “Virtual External Interrupt Optimization and Interruption Collection and
User Mask Optimization” on page 2:349
describes the behavior when both optimizations are
enabled.
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