[PATCH 03/25] KVM: x86: avoid useless set of KVM_REQ_EVENT after emulation

[Paolo Bonzini]

Despite the provisions to emulate up to 130 consecutive instructions, in
practice KVM will emulate just one before exiting handle_invalid_guest_state,
because x86_emulate_instruction always sets KVM_REQ_EVENT.

However, we only need to do this if an interrupt could be injected,
which happens a) if an interrupt shadow bit (STI or MOV SS) has gone
away; b) if the interrupt flag has just been set (other instructions
than STI can set it without enabling an interrupt shadow).

This cuts another 700-900 cycles from the cost of emulating an
instruction (measured on a Sandy Bridge Xeon: 1650-2600 cycles
before the patch on kvm-unit-tests, 925-1700 afterwards).

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 70faa1089b75..e64b8b5cb6cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static u64 __read_mostly efer_reserved_bits = ~((u64)EFER_SCE);
 
 static void update_cr8_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 static void process_nmi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+static void __kvm_set_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long rflags);
 
 struct kvm_x86_ops *kvm_x86_ops;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_x86_ops);
@@ -4865,8 +4866,11 @@ static void toggle_interruptibility(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 mask)
 	 */
 	if (int_shadow & mask)
 		mask = 0;
-	if (unlikely(int_shadow || mask))
+	if (unlikely(int_shadow || mask)) {
 		kvm_x86_ops->set_interrupt_shadow(vcpu, mask);
+		if (!mask)
+			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu);
+	}
 }
 
 static void inject_emulated_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -5092,20 +5096,18 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_check_hw_bp(unsigned long addr, u32 type, u32 dr7,
 	return dr6;
 }
 
-static void kvm_vcpu_check_singlestep(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int *r)
+static void kvm_vcpu_check_singlestep(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long rflags, int *r)
 {
 	struct kvm_run *kvm_run = vcpu->run;
 
 	/*
-	 * Use the "raw" value to see if TF was passed to the processor.
-	 * Note that the new value of the flags has not been saved yet.
+	 * rflags is the old, "raw" value of the flags.  The new value has
+	 * not been saved yet.
 	 *
 	 * This is correct even for TF set by the guest, because "the
 	 * processor will not generate this exception after the instruction
 	 * that sets the TF flag".
 	 */
-	unsigned long rflags = kvm_x86_ops->get_rflags(vcpu);
-
 	if (unlikely(rflags & X86_EFLAGS_TF)) {
 		if (vcpu->guest_debug & KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP) {
 			kvm_run->debug.arch.dr6 = DR6_BS | DR6_FIXED_1;
@@ -5272,13 +5274,22 @@ restart:
 		r = EMULATE_DONE;
 
 	if (writeback) {
+		unsigned long rflags = kvm_x86_ops->get_rflags(vcpu);
 		toggle_interruptibility(vcpu, ctxt->interruptibility);
-		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu);
 		vcpu->arch.emulate_regs_need_sync_to_vcpu = false;
 		kvm_rip_write(vcpu, ctxt->eip);
 		if (r == EMULATE_DONE)
-			kvm_vcpu_check_singlestep(vcpu, &r);
-		kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, ctxt->eflags);
+			kvm_vcpu_check_singlestep(vcpu, rflags, &r);
+		__kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, ctxt->eflags);
+
+		/*
+		 * For STI, interrupts are shadowed; so KVM_REQ_EVENT will
+		 * do nothing, and it will be requested again as soon as
+		 * the shadow expires.  But we still need to check here,
+		 * because POPF has no interrupt shadow.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely((ctxt->eflags & ~rflags) & X86_EFLAGS_IF))
+			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu);
 	} else
 		vcpu->arch.emulate_regs_need_sync_to_vcpu = true;
 
@@ -7400,12 +7411,17 @@ unsigned long kvm_get_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_get_rflags);
 
-void kvm_set_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long rflags)
+static void __kvm_set_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long rflags)
 {
 	if (vcpu->guest_debug & KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP &&
 	    kvm_is_linear_rip(vcpu, vcpu->arch.singlestep_rip))
 		rflags |= X86_EFLAGS_TF;
 	kvm_x86_ops->set_rflags(vcpu, rflags);
+}
+
+void kvm_set_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long rflags)
+{
+	__kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, rflags);
 	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_set_rflags);
-- 
1.8.3.1


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