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@ 2019-07-19 20:41 Sean Christopherson
  2019-07-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] objtool: KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault() Sean Christopherson
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Sean Christopherson @ 2019-07-19 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář,
	Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, x86,
	Josh Poimboeuf, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: H. Peter Anvin, kvm, linux-kernel

A recent commit reworked __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot() to play nice with
objtool.  An unfortunate side effect is that JMP is now inserted after
most VMX instructions so that the reboot macro can use an actual CALL to
kvm_spurious_fault() instead of a funky PUSH+JMP facsimile in .fixup.

Rework the low level VMX instruction helpers to handle unexpected faults
manually instead of relying on the "fault on reboot" macro.  By using
asm-goto, most helpers can branch directly to an in-function call to
kvm_spurious_fault(), which can then be optimized by compilers to reside
out-of-line at the end of the function instead of inline as done by
"fault on reboot".

The net impact relative to the current code base is more or less a nop
when building with a compiler that supports __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__.
A bunch of code that was previously in .fixup gets moved into the slow
paths of functions, but the fast paths are more basically unchanged.

Without __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__, manually coding the Jcc is a net
positive as CC_SET() without compiler support almost always generates a
SETcc+CMP+Jcc sequence, which is now replaced with a single Jcc.

A small bonus is that the Jcc instrs are hinted to predict that the VMX
instr will be successful.

v2:
  - Rebased to x86/master, commit eceffd88ca20 ("Merge branch 'x86/urgent'")
  - Reworded changelogs to reference the commit instead lkml link for
    the recent changes to __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot().
  - Added Paolo's acks for patch 1-4
  - Added patch 5 to do more cleanup, which was made possible by rebasing
    on top of the __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot() changes.
  
Sean Christopherson (5):
  objtool: KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault()
  KVM: VMX: Optimize VMX instruction error and fault handling
  KVM: VMX: Add error handling to VMREAD helper
  KVM: x86: Drop ____kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot()
  KVM: x86: Don't check kvm_rebooting in __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot()

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 16 ++----
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/ops.h          | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          | 42 +++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  3 +-
 tools/objtool/check.c           |  1 -
 5 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

-- 
2.22.0


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2019-07-19 20:41 [PATCH v2 0/5] KVM: VMX: Optimize VMX instrs error/fault handling Sean Christopherson
2019-07-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] objtool: KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault() Sean Christopherson
2019-07-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: VMX: Optimize VMX instruction error and fault handling Sean Christopherson
2019-07-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: VMX: Add error handling to VMREAD helper Sean Christopherson
2019-07-28 19:36   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-07-29  9:20     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: x86: Drop ____kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot() Sean Christopherson
2019-07-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: x86: Don't check kvm_rebooting in __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot() Sean Christopherson
2019-07-19 21:41   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 21:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] KVM: VMX: Optimize VMX instrs error/fault handling Sean Christopherson
2019-09-25 13:30 ` Paolo Bonzini

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