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[v2,2/2] KVM: VMX: mark RDMSR path as unlikely

Message ID 20180222154318.20361-3-pbonzini@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Paolo Bonzini Feb. 22, 2018, 3:43 p.m. UTC 
vmx_vcpu_run and svm_vcpu_run are large functions, and this can actually
make a substantial cycle difference by keeping the fast path contiguous
in memory.  Without it, the retpoline guest/retpoline host case is about
50 cycles slower.

Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 1598beeda11c..24c9521ebc24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -5465,7 +5465,7 @@  static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to
 	 * save it.
 	 */
-	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
+	if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)))
 		svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
 
 	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index af89d377681d..e13fd2a833c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -9589,7 +9589,7 @@  static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to
 	 * save it.
 	 */
-	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
+	if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)))
 		vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
 
 	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)