Commit 8f21a0bb authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: vmx: skip VMWRITE of HOST_{FS,GS}_SEL when possible

On a 64-bit host, FS.sel and GS.sel are all but guaranteed to be 0,
which in turn means they'll rarely change.  Skip the VMWRITE for the
associated VMCS fields when loading host state if the selector hasn't
changed since the last VMWRITE.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent f3bbc0dc
......@@ -2717,16 +2717,20 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
gs_base = segment_base(gs_sel);
#endif
host_state->fs_sel = fs_sel;
if (!(fs_sel & 7))
vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, fs_sel);
else
vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, 0);
host_state->gs_sel = gs_sel;
if (!(gs_sel & 7))
vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, gs_sel);
else
vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, 0);
if (unlikely(fs_sel != host_state->fs_sel)) {
if (!(fs_sel & 7))
vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, fs_sel);
else
vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, 0);
host_state->fs_sel = fs_sel;
}
if (unlikely(gs_sel != host_state->gs_sel)) {
if (!(gs_sel & 7))
vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, gs_sel);
else
vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, 0);
host_state->gs_sel = gs_sel;
}
vmcs_writel(HOST_FS_BASE, fs_base);
vmcs_writel(HOST_GS_BASE, gs_base);
......
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