Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: restore vmx_vmexit alignment
From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Wed May 31 2023 - 15:42:14 EST
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:20:31AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023, Jon Kohler wrote:
> > Commit 8bd200d23ec4 ("KVM: VMX: Flatten __vmx_vcpu_run()") changed
> > vmx_vmexit from SYM_FUNC_START to SYM_INNER_LABEL, accidentally
> > removing 16 byte alignment as SYM_FUNC_START uses SYM_A_ALIGN and
> > SYM_INNER_LABEL does not. Josh mentioned [1] this was unintentional.
>
> Anyone know if this is this stable material, or just nice to have?
Can this improve vmexit latency? I didn't measure it.