From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:12:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190923191250.GC19996@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923181558.GI18195@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:15:58AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On the flip side, using a switch for the fast-path handlers gives the
> compiler more flexibility to rearrange and combine checks. Of course that
> doesn't mean the compiler will actually generate faster code for our
> purposes :-)
>
> Anyways, getting rid of the retpolines is much more important.
Precisely because of your last point, if we throw away the
deterministic priority, then we could drop the whole structure like
Vitaly suggested and we'd rely on gcc to add the indirect jump on a
non-retpoline build.
Solving the nested if we drop the structure and we don't pretend to
make it const, isn't tricky: it only requires one more check if nested
is enabled. The same variable that will have to be checked is also the
variable that needs to be checked in the
kvm_x86_ops->check_nested_events replacement later to drop the
kvm_x86_ops struct as a whole like kvm_pmu_ops was dropped clean.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 21:24 [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 01/17] x86: spec_ctrl: fix SPEC_CTRL initialization after kexec Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 15:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 02/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_x86_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 03/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: handle the request_immediate_exit variation Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 22:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 04/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: convert the kvm_pmu_ops methods to external functions Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 05/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_x86_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 06/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: enable the kvm_pmu_ops " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:24 ` [PATCH 07/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: adjust the section prefixes Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-25 12:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 12:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 08/17] KVM: monolithic: adjust the section prefixes in the KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 09/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 10/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: use the external functions instead of kvm_x86_ops Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 11/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove exports Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 12/17] KVM: monolithic: remove exports from KVM common code Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu_ops structure Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 1:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in vmx.c Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 1:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 1:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 2:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 7:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 15/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from vmx.c exit handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 9:31 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-23 9:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 20:23 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 21:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 21:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 23:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 23:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 0:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 0:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-24 0:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-24 21:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-25 7:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 16:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 16:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-23 17:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 18:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-23 19:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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2019-09-25 20:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 16:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 16/17] KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from svm.c " Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 21:25 ` [PATCH 17/17] x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers Andrea Arcangeli
2019-09-23 15:39 ` [PATCH 00/17] KVM monolithic v1 Sean Christopherson
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