[RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: emulate: avoid per-byte copying in instruction fetches

[Paolo Bonzini]

We do not need a memory copying loop anymore in insn_fetch; we
can use a byte-aligned pointer to access instruction fields directly
from the fetch_cache.  This eliminates 40-80 cycles (corresponding to
a 5-7% improvement in performance) from each instruction.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index 886f9a88010f..245a2d0bfe68 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int segmented_read_std(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
  * Prefetch the remaining bytes of the instruction without crossing page
  * boundary if they are not in fetch_cache yet.
  */
-static int do_insn_fetch_bytes(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, int op_size)
+static int __do_insn_fetch_bytes(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, int op_size)
 {
 	struct fetch_cache *fc = &ctxt->fetch;
 	int rc;
@@ -738,42 +738,39 @@ static int do_insn_fetch_bytes(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, int op_size)
 	return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
 }
 
-static int do_insn_fetch(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
-			 void *__dest, unsigned size)
+static __always_inline int do_insn_fetch_bytes(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
+					       unsigned size)
 {
-	int rc;
-	struct fetch_cache *fc = &ctxt->fetch;
-	u8 *dest = __dest;
-	u8 *src = &fc->data[ctxt->_eip - fc->start];
-
 	/* We have to be careful about overflow! */
-	if (unlikely(ctxt->_eip > fc->end - size)) {
-		rc != do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, size);
-		if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINNUE)
-			goto done;
-	}
-
-	while (size--) {
-		*dest++ = *src++;
-		ctxt->_eip++;
-		continue;
-	}
-	return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
+	if (unlikely(ctxt->_eip > ctxt->fetch.end - size))
+		return __do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, size);
+	else
+		return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
 }
 
 /* Fetch next part of the instruction being emulated. */
 #define insn_fetch(_type, _ctxt)					\
-({	unsigned long _x;						\
-	rc = do_insn_fetch(_ctxt, &_x, sizeof(_type));			\
+({	_type _x;							\
+	struct fetch_cache *_fc;					\
+									\
+	rc = do_insn_fetch_bytes(_ctxt, sizeof(_type));			\
 	if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)					\
 		goto done;						\
-	(_type)_x;							\
+	_fc = &ctxt->fetch;						\
+	_x = *(_type __aligned(1) *) &_fc->data[ctxt->_eip - _fc->start]; \
+	ctxt->_eip += sizeof(_type);					\
+	_x;								\
 })
 
 #define insn_fetch_arr(_arr, _size, _ctxt)				\
-({	rc = do_insn_fetch(_ctxt, _arr, (_size));			\
+({									\
+	struct fetch_cache *_fc;					\
+	rc = do_insn_fetch_bytes(_ctxt, _size);				\
 	if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)					\
 		goto done;						\
+	_fc = &ctxt->fetch;						\
+	memcpy(_arr, &_fc->data[ctxt->_eip - _fc->start], _size);	\
+	ctxt->_eip += (_size);						\
 })
 
 /*
@@ -4282,7 +4279,7 @@ int x86_decode_insn(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, void *insn, int insn_len)
 	if (insn_len > 0)
 		memcpy(ctxt->fetch.data, insn, insn_len);
 	else {
-		rc = do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, 1);
+		rc = __do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, 1);
 		if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
 			return rc;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1


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