Commit 3dcb2a3f authored Nov 04, 2019 by Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Paolo Bonzini Nov 15, 2019

KVM: retpolines: x86: eliminate retpoline from svm.c exit handlers



It's enough to check the exit value and issue a direct call to avoid
the retpoline for all the common vmexit reasons.

After this commit is applied, here the most common retpolines executed
under a high resolution timer workload in the guest on a SVM host:

[..]
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    ktime_get_update_offsets_now+70
    hrtimer_interrupt+131
    smp_apic_timer_interrupt+106
    apic_timer_interrupt+15
    start_sw_timer+359
    restart_apic_timer+85
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 1940
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_r12+33
    force_qs_rnp+217
    rcu_gp_kthread+1270
    kthread+268
    ret_from_fork+34
]: 4644
@[]: 25095
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    lapic_next_event+28
    clockevents_program_event+148
    hrtimer_start_range_ns+528
    start_sw_timer+356
    restart_apic_timer+85
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 41474
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    clockevents_program_event+148
    hrtimer_start_range_ns+528
    start_sw_timer+356
    restart_apic_timer+85
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 41474
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    ktime_get+58
    clockevents_program_event+84
    hrtimer_start_range_ns+528
    start_sw_timer+356
    restart_apic_timer+85
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 41887
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    lapic_next_event+28
    clockevents_program_event+148
    hrtimer_try_to_cancel+168
    hrtimer_cancel+21
    kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr+43
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 42723
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    clockevents_program_event+148
    hrtimer_try_to_cancel+168
    hrtimer_cancel+21
    kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr+43
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 42766
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    ktime_get+58
    clockevents_program_event+84
    hrtimer_try_to_cancel+168
    hrtimer_cancel+21
    kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr+43
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 42848
@[
    trace_retpoline+1
    __trace_retpoline+30
    __x86_indirect_thunk_rax+33
    ktime_get+58
    start_sw_timer+279
    restart_apic_timer+85
    kvm_set_msr_common+1497
    msr_interception+142
    vcpu_enter_guest+684
    kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+261
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl+559
    do_vfs_ioctl+164
    ksys_ioctl+96
    __x64_sys_ioctl+22
    do_syscall_64+89
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68
]: 499845

@total: 1780243

SVM has no TSC based programmable preemption timer so it is invoking
ktime_get() frequently.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

parent 4289d272

arch/x86/kvm/svm.c

+12 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -4999,6 +4999,18 @@ static int handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
		return 0;
		}

		#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
		if (exit_code == SVM_EXIT_MSR)
		return msr_interception(svm);
		else if (exit_code == SVM_EXIT_VINTR)
		return interrupt_window_interception(svm);
		else if (exit_code == SVM_EXIT_INTR)
		return intr_interception(svm);
		else if (exit_code == SVM_EXIT_HLT)
		return halt_interception(svm);
		else if (exit_code == SVM_EXIT_NPF)
		return npf_interception(svm);
		#endif
		return svm_exit_handlers[exit_code](svm);
		}

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