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[v2,16/18] KVM: vmx: write HOST_IA32_EFER in vmx_set_constant_host_state()

Message ID 20180828160459.14093-17-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KVM: nVMX: add option to perform early consistency checks via H/W | expand

Commit Message

Sean Christopherson Aug. 28, 2018, 4:04 p.m. UTC
EFER is constant in the host and writing it once during setup means
we can skip writing the host value in add_atomic_switch_msr_special().

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Jim Mattson Sept. 20, 2018, 9:13 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
> EFER is constant in the host and writing it once during setup means
> we can skip writing the host value in add_atomic_switch_msr_special().
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 1edf82632832..3d826550cc9d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -2697,7 +2697,8 @@  static void add_atomic_switch_msr_special(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx,
 		u64 guest_val, u64 host_val)
 {
 	vmcs_write64(guest_val_vmcs, guest_val);
-	vmcs_write64(host_val_vmcs, host_val);
+	if (host_val_vmcs != HOST_IA32_EFER)
+		vmcs_write64(host_val_vmcs, host_val);
 	vm_entry_controls_setbit(vmx, entry);
 	vm_exit_controls_setbit(vmx, exit);
 }
@@ -6329,6 +6330,9 @@  static void vmx_set_constant_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 		rdmsr(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, low32, high32);
 		vmcs_write64(HOST_IA32_PAT, low32 | ((u64) high32 << 32));
 	}
+
+	if (cpu_has_load_ia32_efer)
+		vmcs_write64(HOST_IA32_EFER, host_efer);
 }
 
 static void set_cr4_guest_host_mask(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)