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KVM: VMX: Only reload guest cr2 if different from host cr2

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cr2 changes only rarely, and writing it is expensive.  Avoid the costly cr2
writes by checking if it does not already hold the desired value.

Shaves 70 cycles off the vmexit latency.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity 2009-06-16 12:33:56 +03:00
parent 681405bfc7
commit d3edefc003
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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@ -3651,11 +3651,16 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
"mov %%"R"sp, %c[host_rsp](%0) \n\t"
__ex(ASM_VMX_VMWRITE_RSP_RDX) "\n\t"
"1: \n\t"
/* Reload cr2 if changed */
"mov %c[cr2](%0), %%"R"ax \n\t"
"mov %%cr2, %%"R"dx \n\t"
"cmp %%"R"ax, %%"R"dx \n\t"
"je 2f \n\t"
"mov %%"R"ax, %%cr2 \n\t"
"2: \n\t"
/* Check if vmlaunch of vmresume is needed */
"cmpl $0, %c[launched](%0) \n\t"
/* Load guest registers. Don't clobber flags. */
"mov %c[cr2](%0), %%"R"ax \n\t"
"mov %%"R"ax, %%cr2 \n\t"
"mov %c[rax](%0), %%"R"ax \n\t"
"mov %c[rbx](%0), %%"R"bx \n\t"
"mov %c[rdx](%0), %%"R"dx \n\t"