- 21 Nov, 2019 1 commit
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarmPaolo Bonzini authored
KVM/arm updates for Linux 5.5: - Allow non-ISV data aborts to be reported to userspace - Allow injection of data aborts from userspace - Expose stolen time to guests - GICv4 performance improvements - vgic ITS emulation fixes - Simplify FWB handling - Enable halt pool counters - Make the emulated timer PREEMPT_RT compliant Conflicts: include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
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- 20 Nov, 2019 5 commits
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Liran Alon authored
Since commit 1313cc2b ("kvm: mmu: Add guest_mode to kvm_mmu_page_role"), guest_mode was added to mmu-role and therefore if L0 use EPT, it will always run L1 and L2 with different EPTP. i.e. EPTP01!=EPTP02. Because TLB entries are tagged with EP4TA, KVM can assume TLB entries populated while running L2 are tagged differently than TLB entries populated while running L1. Therefore, update nested_has_guest_tlb_tag() to consider if L0 use EPT instead of if L1 use EPT. Reviewed-by:
Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Liran Alon authored
The function is only used in kvm.ko module. Reviewed-by:
Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chenyi Qiang authored
When L1 guest uses 5-level paging, it fails vm-entry to L2 due to invalid host-state. It needs to add CR4_LA57 bit to nested CR4_FIXED1 MSR. Signed-off-by:
Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by:
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by:
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Liran Alon authored
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Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nitesh Narayan Lal authored
Not zeroing the bitmap used for identifying the destination vCPUs for an IOAPIC scan request in fixed delivery mode could lead to waking up unwanted vCPUs. This patch zeroes the vCPU bitmap before passing it to kvm_bitmap_or_dest_vcpus(), which is responsible for setting the bitmap with the bits corresponding to the destination vCPUs. Fixes: 7ee30bc1("KVM: x86: deliver KVM IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs") Signed-off-by:
Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 18 Nov, 2019 1 commit
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD KVM: s390: small fixes and enhancements - selftest improvements - yield improvements - cleanups
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- 15 Nov, 2019 33 commits
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Nitesh Narayan Lal authored
In IOAPIC fixed delivery mode instead of flushing the scan requests to all vCPUs, we should only send the requests to vCPUs specified within the destination field. This patch introduces kvm_get_dest_vcpus_mask() API which retrieves an array of target vCPUs by using kvm_apic_map_get_dest_lapic() and then based on the vcpus_idx, it sets the bit in a bitmap. However, if the above fails kvm_get_dest_vcpus_mask() finds the target vCPUs by traversing all available vCPUs. Followed by setting the bits in the bitmap. If we had different vCPUs in the previous request for the same redirection table entry then bits corresponding to these vCPUs are also set. This to done to keep ioapic_handled_vectors synchronized. This bitmap is then eventually passed on to kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() to generate a masked request only for the target vCPUs. This would enable us to reduce the latency overhead on isolated vCPUs caused by the IPI to process due to KVM_REQ_IOAPIC_SCAN. Suggested-by:
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Radim Krčmář authored
Fetching an index for any vcpu in kvm->vcpus array by traversing the entire array everytime is costly. This patch remembers the position of each vcpu in kvm->vcpus array by storing it in vcpus_idx under kvm_vcpu structure. Signed-off-by:
Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aaron Lewis authored
The L1 hypervisor may include the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR in the vmcs12 MSR VM-exit MSR-store area as a way of determining the highest TSC value that might have been observed by L2 prior to VM-exit. The current implementation does not capture a very tight bound on this value. To tighten the bound, add the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR to the vmcs02 VM-exit MSR-store area whenever it appears in the vmcs12 VM-exit MSR-store area. When L0 processes the vmcs12 VM-exit MSR-store area during the emulation of an L2->L1 VM-exit, special-case the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR, using the value stored in the vmcs02 VM-exit MSR-store area to derive the value to be stored in the vmcs12 VM-exit MSR-store area. Reviewed-by:
Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aaron Lewis authored
Rename function find_msr() to vmx_find_msr_index() in preparation for an upcoming patch where we export it and use it in nested.c. Reviewed-by:
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Aaron Lewis authored
Rename NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS to NR_LOADSTORE_MSRS. This needs to be done due to the addition of the MSR-autostore area that will be added in a future patch. After that the name AUTOLOAD will no longer make sense. Reviewed-by:
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Aaron Lewis authored
Add the function read_and_check_msr_entry() which just pulls some code out of nested_vmx_store_msr(). This will be useful as reusable code in upcoming patches. Reviewed-by:
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Correct a small inaccuracy in the shattering of vmx.c, which becomes visible now that pmu_intel.c includes nested.h. Signed-off-by: -
Oliver Upton authored
The "load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL" bit for VM-entry and VM-exit should only be exposed to the guest if IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL is a valid MSR. Create a new helper to allow pmu_refresh() to update the VM-Entry and VM-Exit controls to ensure PMU values are initialized when performing the is_valid_msr() check. Suggested-by:
Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Peter Shier <pshier@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oliver Upton authored
Add condition to prepare_vmcs02 which loads IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL on VM-entry if the "load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL" bit on the VM-entry control is set. Use SET_MSR_OR_WARN() rather than directly writing to the field to avoid overwrite by atomic_switch_perf_msrs(). Suggested-by:
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Oliver Upton authored
The existing implementation for loading the IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR on VM-exit was incorrect, as the next call to atomic_switch_perf_msrs() could cause this value to be overwritten. Instead, call kvm_set_msr() which will allow atomic_switch_perf_msrs() to correctly set the values. Define a macro, SET_MSR_OR_WARN(), to set the MSR with kvm_set_msr() and WARN on failure. Suggested-by:
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Oliver Upton authored
Add a consistency check on nested vm-entry for host's IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL from vmcs12. Per Intel's SDM Vol 3 26.2.2: If the "load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL" VM-exit control is 1, bits reserved in the IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR must be 0 in the field for that register" Suggested-by:
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Oliver Upton authored
Add condition to nested_vmx_check_guest_state() to check the validity of GUEST_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL. Per Intel's SDM Vol 3 26.3.1.1: If the "load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL" VM-entry control is 1, bits reserved in the IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR must be 0 in the field for that register. Suggested-by:
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Oliver Upton authored
Create a helper function to check the validity of a proposed value for IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL from the existing check in intel_pmu_set_msr(). Per Intel's SDM, the reserved bits in IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL must be cleared for the corresponding host/guest state fields. Suggested-by:
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Wainer dos Santos Moschetta authored
On kvm_create_max_vcpus test remove unneeded local variable in the loop that add vcpus to the VM. Signed-off-by:
Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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Liran Alon authored
When KVM emulates a nested VMEntry (L1->L2 VMEntry), it switches mmu root page. If nEPT is used, this will happen from kvm_init_shadow_ept_mmu()->__kvm_mmu_new_cr3() and otherwise it will happpen from nested_vmx_load_cr3()->kvm_mmu_new_cr3(). Either case, __kvm_mmu_new_cr3() will use fast_cr3_switch() in attempt to switch to a previously cached root page. In case fast_cr3_switch() finds a matching cached root page, it will set it in mmu->root_hpa and request KVM_REQ_LOAD_CR3 such that on next entry to guest, KVM will set root HPA in appropriate hardware fields (e.g. vmcs->eptp). In addition, fast_cr3_switch() calls kvm_x86_ops->tlb_flush() in order to flush TLB as MMU root page was replaced. This works as mmu->root_hpa, which vmx_flush_tlb() use, was already replaced in cached_root_available(). However, this may result in unnecessary INVEPT execution because a KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH may have already been requested. For example, by prepare_vmcs02() in case L1 don't use VPID. Therefore, change fast_cr3_switch() to just request TLB flush on next entry to guest. Reviewed-by:
Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh.davda@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Like Xu authored
Currently, a host perf_event is created for a vPMC functionality emulation. It’s unpredictable to determine if a disabled perf_event will be reused. If they are disabled and are not reused for a considerable period of time, those obsolete perf_events would increase host context switch overhead that could have been avoided. If the guest doesn't WRMSR any of the vPMC's MSRs during an entire vcpu sched time slice, and its independent enable bit of the vPMC isn't set, we can predict that the guest has finished the use of this vPMC, and then do request KVM_REQ_PMU in kvm_arch_sched_in and release those perf_events in the first call of kvm_pmu_handle_event() after the vcpu is scheduled in. This lazy mechanism delays the event release time to the beginning of the next scheduled time slice if vPMC's MSRs aren't changed during this time slice. If guest comes back to use this vPMC in next time slice, a new perf event would be re-created via perf_event_create_kernel_counter() as usual. Suggested-by:
Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> Suggested-by:
Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Like Xu authored
The perf_event_create_kernel_counter() in the pmc_reprogram_counter() is a heavyweight and high-frequency operation, especially when host disables the watchdog (maximum 21000000 ns) which leads to an unacceptable latency of the guest NMI handler. It limits the use of vPMUs in the guest. When a vPMC is fully enabled, the legacy reprogram_*_counter() would stop and release its existing perf_event (if any) every time EVEN in most cases almost the same requested perf_event will be created and configured again. For each vPMC, if the reuqested config ('u64 eventsel' for gp and 'u8 ctrl' for fixed) is the same as its current config AND a new sample period based on pmc->counter is accepted by host perf interface, the current event could be reused safely as a new created one does. Otherwise, do release the undesirable perf_event and reprogram a new one as usual. It's light-weight to call pmc_pause_counter (disable, read and reset event) and pmc_resume_counter (recalibrate period and re-enable event) as guest expects instead of release-and-create again on any condition. Compared to use the filterable event->attr or hw.config, a new 'u64 current_config' field is added to save the last original programed config for each vPMC. Based on this implementation, the number of calls to pmc_reprogram_counter is reduced by ~82.5% for a gp sampling event and ~99.9% for a fixed event. In the usage of multiplexing perf sampling mode, the average latency of the guest NMI handler is reduced from 104923 ns to 48393 ns (~2.16x speed up). If host disables watchdog, the minimum latecy of guest NMI handler could be speed up at ~3413x (from 20407603 to 5979 ns) and at ~786x in the average. Suggested-by:Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Like Xu authored
Introduce a new callback msr_idx_to_pmc that returns a struct kvm_pmc*, and change kvm_pmu_is_valid_msr to return ".msr_idx_to_pmc(vcpu, msr) || .is_valid_msr(vcpu, msr)" and AMD just returns false from .is_valid_msr. Suggested-by:
kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Like Xu authored
The leagcy pmu_ops->msr_idx_to_pmc is only called in kvm_pmu_rdpmc, so this function actually receives the contents of ECX before RDPMC, and translates it to a kvm_pmc. Let's clarify its semantic by renaming the existing msr_idx_to_pmc to rdpmc_ecx_to_pmc, and is_valid_msr_idx to is_valid_rdpmc_ecx; likewise for the wrapper kvm_pmu_is_valid_msr_idx. Suggested-by:
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Like Xu authored
Exporting perf_event_pause() as an external accessor for kernel users (such as KVM) who may do both disable perf_event and read count with just one time to hold perf_event_ctx_lock. Also the value could be reset optionally. Suggested-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Like Xu authored
Currently, perf_event_period() is used by user tools via ioctl. Based on naming convention, exporting perf_event_period() for kernel users (such as KVM) who may recalibrate the event period for their assigned counter according to their requirements. The perf_event_period() is an external accessor, just like the perf_event_{en,dis}able() and should thus use perf_event_ctx_lock(). Suggested-by: -
Liran Alon authored
When L1 don't use TPR-Shadow to run L2, L0 configures vmcs02 without TPR-Shadow and install intercepts on CR8 access (load and store). If L1 do not intercept L2 CR8 access, L0 intercepts on those accesses will emulate load/store on L1's LAPIC TPR. If in this case L2 lowers TPR such that there is now an injectable interrupt to L1, apic_update_ppr() will request a KVM_REQ_EVENT which will trigger a call to update_cr8_intercept() to update TPR-Threshold to highest pending IRR priority. However, this update to TPR-Threshold is done while active vmcs is vmcs02 instead of vmcs01. Thus, when later at some point L0 will emulate an exit from L2 to L1, L1 will still run with high TPR-Threshold. This will result in every VMEntry to L1 to immediately exit on TPR_BELOW_THRESHOLD and continue to do so infinitely until some condition will cause KVM_REQ_EVENT to be set. (Note that TPR_BELOW_THRESHOLD exit handler do not set KVM_REQ_EVENT until apic_update_ppr() will notice a new injectable interrupt for PPR) To fix this issue, change update_cr8_intercept() such that if L2 lowers L1's TPR in a way that requires to lower L1's TPR-Threshold, save update to TPR-Threshold and apply it to vmcs01 when L0 emulates an exit from L2 to L1. Reviewed-by:
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Liran Alon authored
No functional changes. Reviewed-by:
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Liran Alon authored
This check is unnecessary as x86 update_cr8_intercept() which calls this VMX/SVM specific callback already performs this check. Reviewed-by:
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Miaohe Lin authored
There are some duplicate code in kvm_pv_send_ipi when deal with ipi bitmap. Add helper func to remove it, and eliminate odd out label, get rid of unnecessary kvm_lapic_irq field init and so on. Signed-off-by:
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miaohe Lin authored
When SYSCALL/SYSENTER ability check failed, cs and ss is inited but remain not used. Delay initializing cs and ss until SYSCALL/SYSENTER ability check passed. Signed-off-by:
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Miaohe Lin authored
The out_err label and var ret is unnecessary, clean them up. Signed-off-by:
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Liran Alon authored
Intel SDM section 25.2 OTHER CAUSES OF VM EXITS specifies the following on INIT signals: "Such exits do not modify register state or clear pending events as they would outside of VMX operation." When commit 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states") was applied, I interepted above Intel SDM statement such that INIT_SIGNAL exit don’t consume the LAPIC INIT pending event. However, when Nadav Amit run matching kvm-unit-test on a bare-metal machine, it turned out my interpetation was wrong. i.e. INIT_SIGNAL exit does consume the LAPIC INIT pending event. (See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg196757.html) Therefore, fix KVM code to behave as observed on bare-metal. Fixes: 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states") Reported-by:
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
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Liran Alon authored
Commit 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states") fixed KVM to also latch pending LAPIC INIT event when vCPU is in VMX operation. However, current API of KVM_SET_MP_STATE allows userspace to put vCPU into KVM_MP_STATE_SIPI_RECEIVED or KVM_MP_STATE_INIT_RECEIVED even when vCPU is in VMX operation. Fix this by introducing a util method to check if vCPU state latch INIT signals and use it in KVM_SET_MP_STATE handler. Fixes: 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states") Reported-by:
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Liran Alon authored
Commit 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states") fixed KVM to also latch pending LAPIC INIT event when vCPU is in VMX operation. However, current API of KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS defines this field as part of SMM state and only set pending LAPIC INIT event if vCPU is specified to be in SMM mode (events->smi.smm is set). Change KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS handler to set pending LAPIC INIT event by latched_init field regardless of if vCPU is in SMM mode or not. Fixes: 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states") Reviewed-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
It's enough to check the value and issue the direct call. After this commit is applied, here the most common retpolines executed under a high resolution timer workload in the guest on a VMX host: [..] @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 267 @[]: 2256 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 __kvm_wait_lapic_expire+284 vmx_vcpu_run.part.97+1091 vcpu_enter_guest+377 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 2390 @[]: 33410 @total: 315707 Note the highest hit above is __delay so probably not worth optimizing even if it would be more frequent than 2k hits per sec. Signed-off-by:Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
It's enough to check the exit value and issue a direct call to avoid the retpoline for all the common vmexit reasons. After this commit is applied, here the most common retpolines executed under a high resolution timer workload in the guest on a SVM host: [..] @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 ktime_get_update_offsets_now+70 hrtimer_interrupt+131 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+106 apic_timer_interrupt+15 start_sw_timer+359 restart_apic_timer+85 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 1940 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_r12+33 force_qs_rnp+217 rcu_gp_kthread+1270 kthread+268 ret_from_fork+34 ]: 4644 @[]: 25095 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 lapic_next_event+28 clockevents_program_event+148 hrtimer_start_range_ns+528 start_sw_timer+356 restart_apic_timer+85 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 41474 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 clockevents_program_event+148 hrtimer_start_range_ns+528 start_sw_timer+356 restart_apic_timer+85 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 41474 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 ktime_get+58 clockevents_program_event+84 hrtimer_start_range_ns+528 start_sw_timer+356 restart_apic_timer+85 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 41887 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 lapic_next_event+28 clockevents_program_event+148 hrtimer_try_to_cancel+168 hrtimer_cancel+21 kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr+43 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 42723 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 clockevents_program_event+148 hrtimer_try_to_cancel+168 hrtimer_cancel+21 kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr+43 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 42766 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 ktime_get+58 clockevents_program_event+84 hrtimer_try_to_cancel+168 hrtimer_cancel+21 kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr+43 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 42848 @[ trace_retpoline+1 __trace_retpoline+30 __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33 ktime_get+58 start_sw_timer+279 restart_apic_timer+85 kvm_set_msr_common+1497 msr_interception+142 vcpu_enter_guest+684 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559 do_vfs_ioctl+164 ksys_ioctl+96 __x64_sys_ioctl+22 do_syscall_64+89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 ]: 499845 @total: 1780243 SVM has no TSC based programmable preemption timer so it is invoking ktime_get() frequently. Signed-off-by: -
Andrea Arcangeli authored
It's enough to check the exit value and issue a direct call to avoid the retpoline for all the common vmexit reasons. Of course CONFIG_RETPOLINE already forbids gcc to use indirect jumps while compiling all switch() statements, however switch() would still allow the compiler to bisect the case value. It's more efficient to prioritize the most frequent vmexits instead. The halt may be slow paths from the point of the guest, but not necessarily so from the point of the host if the host runs at full CPU capacity and no host CPU is ever left idle. Signed-off-by:
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