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| author | Avi Kivity | 2011-01-06 18:09:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Marcelo Tosatti | 2011-03-17 13:08:26 -0300 |
| commit | 40712faeb84dacfcb3925a88231daa08b3624d34 (patch) | |
| tree | f2d916b387dcf6613a4a3a43d10f96b979eb17f2 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 1c696d0e1b7c10e1e8b34cb6c797329e3c33f262 (diff) | |
KVM: VMX: Avoid atomic operation in vmx_vcpu_run
Instead of exchanging the guest and host rcx, have separate storage
for each. This allows us to avoid using the xchg instruction, which
is is a little slower than normal operations.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index da468c26639d..ae4f02d47091 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -4022,6 +4022,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) asm( /* Store host registers */ "push %%"R"dx; push %%"R"bp;" + "push %%"R"cx \n\t" /* placeholder for guest rcx */ "push %%"R"cx \n\t" "cmp %%"R"sp, %c[host_rsp](%0) \n\t" "je 1f \n\t" @@ -4063,7 +4064,8 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) ".Llaunched: " __ex(ASM_VMX_VMRESUME) "\n\t" ".Lkvm_vmx_return: " /* Save guest registers, load host registers, keep flags */ - "xchg %0, (%%"R"sp) \n\t" + "mov %0, %c[wordsize](%%"R"sp) \n\t" + "pop %0 \n\t" "mov %%"R"ax, %c[rax](%0) \n\t" "mov %%"R"bx, %c[rbx](%0) \n\t" "pop"Q" %c[rcx](%0) \n\t" @@ -4107,7 +4109,8 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) [r14]"i"(offsetof(struct vcpu_vmx, vcpu.arch.regs[VCPU_REGS_R14])), [r15]"i"(offsetof(struct vcpu_vmx, vcpu.arch.regs[VCPU_REGS_R15])), #endif - [cr2]"i"(offsetof(struct vcpu_vmx, vcpu.arch.cr2)) + [cr2]"i"(offsetof(struct vcpu_vmx, vcpu.arch.cr2)), + [wordsize]"i"(sizeof(ulong)) : "cc", "memory" , R"ax", R"bx", R"di", R"si" #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 |