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KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
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On x86_64, we can defer %ds and %es reload to the heavyweight context switch,
since nothing in the lightweight paths uses the host %ds or %es (they are
ignored by the processor).  Furthermore we can avoid the load if the segments
are null, by letting the hardware load the null segments for us.  This is the
expected case.

On i386, we could avoid the reload entirely, since the entry.S paths take care
of reload, except for the SYSEXIT path which leaves %ds and %es set to __USER_DS.
So we set them to the same values as well.

Saves about 70 cycles out of 1600 (around 4%; noisy measurements).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity authored and Marcelo Tosatti committed May 16, 2012
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36 changes: 31 additions & 5 deletions arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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Expand Up @@ -393,6 +393,9 @@ struct vcpu_vmx {
struct {
int loaded;
u16 fs_sel, gs_sel, ldt_sel;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
u16 ds_sel, es_sel;
#endif
int gs_ldt_reload_needed;
int fs_reload_needed;
} host_state;
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vmx->host_state.gs_ldt_reload_needed = 1;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
savesegment(ds, vmx->host_state.ds_sel);
savesegment(es, vmx->host_state.es_sel);
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
vmcs_writel(HOST_FS_BASE, read_msr(MSR_FS_BASE));
vmcs_writel(HOST_GS_BASE, read_msr(MSR_GS_BASE));
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}
if (vmx->host_state.fs_reload_needed)
loadsegment(fs, vmx->host_state.fs_sel);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (unlikely(vmx->host_state.ds_sel | vmx->host_state.es_sel)) {
loadsegment(ds, vmx->host_state.ds_sel);
loadsegment(es, vmx->host_state.es_sel);
}
#else
/*
* The sysexit path does not restore ds/es, so we must set them to
* a reasonable value ourselves.
*/
loadsegment(ds, __USER_DS);
loadsegment(es, __USER_DS);
#endif
reload_tss();
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base);
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vmcs_writel(HOST_CR3, read_cr3()); /* 22.2.3 FIXME: shadow tables */

vmcs_write16(HOST_CS_SELECTOR, __KERNEL_CS); /* 22.2.4 */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/*
* Load null selectors, so we can avoid reloading them in
* __vmx_load_host_state(), in case userspace uses the null selectors
* too (the expected case).
*/
vmcs_write16(HOST_DS_SELECTOR, 0);
vmcs_write16(HOST_ES_SELECTOR, 0);
#else
vmcs_write16(HOST_DS_SELECTOR, __KERNEL_DS); /* 22.2.4 */
vmcs_write16(HOST_ES_SELECTOR, __KERNEL_DS); /* 22.2.4 */
#endif
vmcs_write16(HOST_SS_SELECTOR, __KERNEL_DS); /* 22.2.4 */
vmcs_write16(HOST_TR_SELECTOR, GDT_ENTRY_TSS*8); /* 22.2.4 */

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -6102,10 +6133,7 @@ static void atomic_switch_perf_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
u16 _ds, _es;

savesegment(ds, _ds);
savesegment(es, _es);
if (is_guest_mode(vcpu) && !vmx->nested.nested_run_pending) {
struct vmcs12 *vmcs12 = get_vmcs12(vcpu);
if (vmcs12->idt_vectoring_info_field &
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}
}

loadsegment(ds, _ds);
loadsegment(es, _es);
vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched = 1;

vmx->exit_reason = vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_REASON);
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