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| author | Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> | 2018-07-23 12:32:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2018-08-06 17:59:16 +0200 |
| commit | 8f21a0bbf36f58334695ae6e46c0cf906a217154 (patch) | |
| tree | e5eec36f1c8ed760755913d80ec90738c87a19e8 /arch/x86/kvm | |
| parent | f3bbc0dcedf50d29d2d6fdfb16c5ec3e2368837f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-8f21a0bbf36f58334695ae6e46c0cf906a217154.tar.gz lwn-8f21a0bbf36f58334695ae6e46c0cf906a217154.zip | |
KVM: vmx: skip VMWRITE of HOST_{FS,GS}_SEL when possible
On a 64-bit host, FS.sel and GS.sel are all but guaranteed to be 0,
which in turn means they'll rarely change. Skip the VMWRITE for the
associated VMCS fields when loading host state if the selector hasn't
changed since the last VMWRITE.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 60bf9a95219f..4937e11f971a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -2717,16 +2717,20 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) gs_base = segment_base(gs_sel); #endif - host_state->fs_sel = fs_sel; - if (!(fs_sel & 7)) - vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, fs_sel); - else - vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, 0); - host_state->gs_sel = gs_sel; - if (!(gs_sel & 7)) - vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, gs_sel); - else - vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, 0); + if (unlikely(fs_sel != host_state->fs_sel)) { + if (!(fs_sel & 7)) + vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, fs_sel); + else + vmcs_write16(HOST_FS_SELECTOR, 0); + host_state->fs_sel = fs_sel; + } + if (unlikely(gs_sel != host_state->gs_sel)) { + if (!(gs_sel & 7)) + vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, gs_sel); + else + vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, 0); + host_state->gs_sel = gs_sel; + } vmcs_writel(HOST_FS_BASE, fs_base); vmcs_writel(HOST_GS_BASE, gs_base); |