KVM: VMX: Skip GUEST_CR3 VMREAD+VMWRITE if the VMCS is up-to-date
authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:45:17 +0000 (14:45 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:34:10 +0000 (13:34 +0200)
commitb17b7436f2f0c4984f98a0b317b8362fd365700d
tree6c72b83c58377f085f05040d52f2385befe712e6
parent33af3a7ef9e6fb6fa5f0168c3c67f51776dafc54
KVM: VMX: Skip GUEST_CR3 VMREAD+VMWRITE if the VMCS is up-to-date

Skip the VMWRITE to update GUEST_CR3 if CR3 is not available, i.e. has
not been read from the VMCS since the last VM-Enter.  If vcpu->arch.cr3
is stale, kvm_read_cr3(vcpu) will refresh vcpu->arch.cr3 from the VMCS,
meaning KVM will do a VMREAD and then VMWRITE the value it just pulled
from the VMCS.

Note, this is a purely theoretical change, no instances of skipping
the VMREAD+VMWRITE have been observed with this change.

Tested-by: Reto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch>
Tested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c