Re: [PATCH] Introduce bitmask for apic attention reasons.

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:33:22PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> The patch introduces a bitmap that will hold reasons apic should be
> checked during vmexit. This is in a preparation for vp eoi patch
> that will add one more check on vmexit. With the bitmap we can do
> if(apic_attention) to check everything simultaneously which will
> add zero overhead on the fast path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

Looks very clean, thanks!
I'll integrate this in the eoi patchset.

> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    3 +++
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c            |   12 +++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index f624ca7..fe4e85b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ enum {
>  #define DR7_FIXED_1	0x00000400
>  #define DR7_VOLATILE	0xffff23ff
>  
> +#define KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC	0
> +
>  /*
>   * We don't want allocation failures within the mmu code, so we preallocate
>   * enough memory for a single page fault in a cache.
> @@ -337,6 +339,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>  	u64 efer;
>  	u64 apic_base;
>  	struct kvm_lapic *apic;    /* kernel irqchip context */
> +	unsigned long apic_attention;
>  	int32_t apic_arb_prio;
>  	int mp_state;
>  	int sipi_vector;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 992b4ea..93c1574 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -1088,6 +1088,7 @@ void kvm_lapic_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	apic_update_ppr(apic);
>  
>  	vcpu->arch.apic_arb_prio = 0;
> +	vcpu->arch.apic_attention = 0;
>  
>  	apic_debug(KERN_INFO "%s: vcpu=%p, id=%d, base_msr="
>  		   "0x%016" PRIx64 ", base_address=0x%0lx.\n", __func__,
> @@ -1287,7 +1288,7 @@ void kvm_lapic_sync_from_vapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	u32 data;
>  	void *vapic;
>  
> -	if (!irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm) || !vcpu->arch.apic->vapic_addr)
> +	if (!test_bit(KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC, &vcpu->arch.apic_attention))
>  		return;
>  
>  	vapic = kmap_atomic(vcpu->arch.apic->vapic_page);
> @@ -1304,7 +1305,7 @@ void kvm_lapic_sync_to_vapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	struct kvm_lapic *apic;
>  	void *vapic;
>  
> -	if (!irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm) || !vcpu->arch.apic->vapic_addr)
> +	if (!test_bit(KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC, &vcpu->arch.apic_attention))
>  		return;
>  
>  	apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
> @@ -1324,10 +1325,11 @@ void kvm_lapic_sync_to_vapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  
>  void kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t vapic_addr)
>  {
> -	if (!irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm))
> -		return;
> -
>  	vcpu->arch.apic->vapic_addr = vapic_addr;
> +	if (vapic_addr)
> +		__set_bit(KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC, &vcpu->arch.apic_attention);
> +	else
> +		__clear_bit(KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC, &vcpu->arch.apic_attention);
>  }
>  
>  int kvm_x2apic_msr_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
> -- 
> 1.7.7.3