KVM/VMX: Avoid stack engine synchronization uop in __vmx_vcpu_run
Avoid instructions with explicit uses of the stack pointer between instructions that implicitly refer to it. The sequence of POP %reg; ADD $x, %RSP; POP %reg forces emission of synchronization uop to synchronize the value of the stack pointer in the stack engine and the out-of-order core. Using POP with the dummy register instead of ADD $x, %RSP results in a smaller code size and faster code. The patch also fixes the reference to the wrong register in the nearby comment. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816211010.25693-1-ubizjak@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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