[PATCH v3 2/8] KVM: nSVM: Drop pointless pdptrs_changed() check on nested transition

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 05:02:34 EST


From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Remove the "PDPTRs unchanged" check to skip PDPTR loading during nested
SVM transitions as it's not at all an optimization. Reading guest memory
to get the PDPTRs isn't magically cheaper by doing it in pdptrs_changed(),
and if the PDPTRs did change, KVM will end up doing the read twice.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 5e8d8443154e..8f5dbc80f57f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -391,10 +391,8 @@ static int nested_svm_load_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3,
return -EINVAL;

if (!nested_npt && is_pae_paging(vcpu) &&
- (cr3 != kvm_read_cr3(vcpu) || pdptrs_changed(vcpu))) {
- if (CC(!load_pdptrs(vcpu, vcpu->arch.walk_mmu, cr3)))
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ CC(!load_pdptrs(vcpu, vcpu->arch.walk_mmu, cr3)))
+ return -EINVAL;

/*
* TODO: optimize unconditional TLB flush/MMU sync here and in
--
2.26.3