MIPS: KVM: Restore host EBase from ebase variable
The host kernel's exception vector base address is currently saved in the VCPU structure at creation time, and restored on a guest exit. However it doesn't change and can already be easily accessed from the 'ebase' variable (arch/mips/kernel/traps.c), so drop the host_ebase member of kvm_vcpu_arch, export the 'ebase' variable to modules and load from there instead. This does result in a single extra instruction (lui) on the guest exit path, but simplifies the code a bit and removes the redundant storage of the host exception base address. Credit for the idea goes to Cavium's VZ KVM implementation. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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