Commit 9eb2034f authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini Committed by Juerg Haefliger

KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811646

commit 946fbbc1 upstream.

vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() are large functions, and giving
branch hints to the compiler can actually make a substantial cycle
difference by keeping the fast path contiguous in memory.

With this optimization, the retpoline-guest/retpoline-host case is
about 50 cycles faster.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-3-pbonzini@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit f750e151 linux-stable)
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 431b849c
......@@ -4057,7 +4057,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to
* save it.
*/
if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)))
svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host(svm->spec_ctrl, svm->virt_spec_ctrl);
......
......@@ -9073,7 +9073,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to
* save it.
*/
if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)))
vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host(vmx->spec_ctrl, 0);
......
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