From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: svm: make wbinvd faster
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:29:36 -0500
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References: <20150228001917.15247.41063.stgit@joelvmguard2.amd.com>
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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com>, <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@amd.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20150228001917.15247.41063.stgit@joelvmguard2.amd.com> (Joel
	Schopp's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:19:18 -0600")
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Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@amd.com> writes:

> From: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com>
> No need to re-decode WBINVD since we know what it is from the intercept.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com>
> [extracted from larger unlrelated patch, forward ported, tested]
> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |   10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index d319e0c..86ecd21 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -2776,6 +2776,14 @@ static int skinit_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>  	return 1;
>  }
>  
> +static int wbinvd_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> +{
> +	kvm_emulate_wbinvd(&svm->vcpu);
> +	skip_emulated_instruction(&svm->vcpu);
> +	return 1;
> +}
> +
> +
Can't we merge this to kvm_emulate_wbinvd, and just call that function
directly for both vmx and svm ?

>  static int xsetbv_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>  {
>  	u64 new_bv = kvm_read_edx_eax(&svm->vcpu);
> @@ -3376,7 +3384,7 @@ static int (*const svm_exit_handlers[])(struct vcpu_svm *svm) = {
>  	[SVM_EXIT_STGI]				= stgi_interception,
>  	[SVM_EXIT_CLGI]				= clgi_interception,
>  	[SVM_EXIT_SKINIT]			= skinit_interception,
> -	[SVM_EXIT_WBINVD]                       = emulate_on_interception,
So, this means x86_emulate_insn() in emulate.c has no callers left for the
wbinvd case ? vmx calls kvm_emulate_wbinvd directly too..

Bandan
> +	[SVM_EXIT_WBINVD]                       = wbinvd_interception,
>  	[SVM_EXIT_MONITOR]			= monitor_interception,
>  	[SVM_EXIT_MWAIT]			= mwait_interception,
>  	[SVM_EXIT_XSETBV]			= xsetbv_interception,
>
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