x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers
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: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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