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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
Cc: gleb@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] KVM: Add SMAP support when setting CR4
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:14:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5348854E.4010007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140410201234.GB26092@amt.cnet>

Il 10/04/2014 16:12, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:46:34PM +0800, Feng Wu wrote:
>> This patch adds SMAP handling logic when setting CR4 for guests
>>
>> Thanks a lot to Paolo Bonzini for his suggestion to use the branchless
>> way to detect SMAP violation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
>>
>> @@ -110,10 +118,30 @@ static inline bool is_write_protection(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>   * Will a fault with a given page-fault error code (pfec) cause a permission
>>   * fault with the given access (in ACC_* format)?
>>   */
>> -static inline bool permission_fault(struct kvm_mmu *mmu, unsigned pte_access,
>> -				    unsigned pfec)
>> +static inline bool permission_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *mmu,
>> +				    unsigned pte_access, unsigned pfec)
>>  {
>> -	return (mmu->permissions[pfec >> 1] >> pte_access) & 1;
>> +	int cpl = kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(vcpu);
>> +	unsigned long rflags = kvm_x86_ops->get_rflags(vcpu);
>
> Some branches added here (can't think of anything useful to avoid them).

Yeah, but most of them should be well predicted.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-12  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01  9:46 [PATCH v4 0/4] KVM: enable Intel SMAP for KVM Feng Wu
2014-04-01  9:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] KVM: Remove SMAP bit from CR4_RESERVED_BITS Feng Wu
2014-04-01  9:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] KVM: Add SMAP support when setting CR4 Feng Wu
2014-04-10 20:12   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-12  0:14     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-04-01  9:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] KVM: Disable SMAP for guests in EPT realmode and EPT unpaging mode Feng Wu
2014-04-01  9:46 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] KVM: expose SMAP feature to guest Feng Wu
2014-04-03 16:46 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] KVM: enable Intel SMAP for KVM Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-04  2:22   ` Wu, Feng
2014-04-04  7:27     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-08  1:06       ` Wu, Feng
2014-04-08 20:38         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-10 20:01           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-12  0:16             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-12  0:17               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-13 21:57               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-13 22:48                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-10 20:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti

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