Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: svm: make wbinvd faster

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Mon Mar 02 2015 - 14:06:01 EST


2015-03-02 12:04-0600, Joel Schopp:
> From: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@xxxxxxx>
> No need to re-decode WBINVD since we know what it is from the intercept.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@xxxxxxx>
> [extracted from larger unlrelated patch, forward ported, tested]
> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -2774,6 +2774,13 @@ static int skinit_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> return 1;
> }
>
> +static int wbinvd_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> +{
> + kvm_emulate_wbinvd(&svm->vcpu);
> + return 1;
> +}
> +
> +

(Squashing these lines would have been a nice improvement.)

> static int xsetbv_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> {
> u64 new_bv = kvm_read_edx_eax(&svm->vcpu);
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