[PATCH] x86/hvm: Improve hvm_set_guest_pat() code generation

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

This is a fastpath on virtual vmentry/exit, and forcing guest_pat to be
spilled to the stack is bad.  Performing the shift in a register is far more
efficient.

Drop the (IMO useless) log message.  MSR_PAT only gets altered on boot, and a
bad value will be entirely evident in the ensuing #GP backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
---
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
---
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
index d233550ae47b..e3c9b3794544 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
@@ -299,13 +299,13 @@ void hvm_get_guest_pat(struct vcpu *v, u64 *guest_pat)
         *guest_pat = v->arch.hvm.pat_cr;
 }
 
-int hvm_set_guest_pat(struct vcpu *v, u64 guest_pat)
+int hvm_set_guest_pat(struct vcpu *v, uint64_t guest_pat)
 {
-    int i;
-    uint8_t *value = (uint8_t *)&guest_pat;
+    unsigned int i;
+    uint64_t tmp;
 
-    for ( i = 0; i < 8; i++ )
-        switch ( value[i] )
+    for ( i = 0, tmp = guest_pat; i < 8; i++, tmp >>= 8 )
+        switch ( tmp & 0xff )
         {
         case PAT_TYPE_UC_MINUS:
         case PAT_TYPE_UNCACHABLE:
@@ -313,10 +313,9 @@ int hvm_set_guest_pat(struct vcpu *v, u64 guest_pat)
         case PAT_TYPE_WRCOMB:
         case PAT_TYPE_WRPROT:
         case PAT_TYPE_WRTHROUGH:
-            break;
+            continue;
+
         default:
-            HVM_DBG_LOG(DBG_LEVEL_MSR, "invalid guest PAT: %"PRIx64"\n",
-                        guest_pat); 
             return 0;
         }
 
-- 
2.11.0