[PATCH] KVM: VMX: add vcpu_clear()
authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:54:46 +0000 (00:54 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:48:41 +0000 (09:48 -0800)
Like the inline code it replaces, this function decaches the vmcs from the cpu
it last executed on.  in addition:

 - vcpu_clear() works if the last cpu is also the cpu we're running on
 - it is faster on larger smps by virtue of using smp_call_function_single()

Includes fix from Ingo Molnar.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/kvm/vmx.c

index 407862825c1f15d074eea9fe874d835db495c0fa..28da0cae64a7d9578cc6b23a734268a4299935c1 100644 (file)
@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ static void __vcpu_clear(void *arg)
                per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) = NULL;
 }
 
+static void vcpu_clear(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+       if (vcpu->cpu != raw_smp_processor_id() && vcpu->cpu != -1)
+               smp_call_function_single(vcpu->cpu, __vcpu_clear, vcpu, 0, 1);
+       else
+               __vcpu_clear(vcpu);
+       vcpu->launched = 0;
+}
+
 static unsigned long vmcs_readl(unsigned long field)
 {
        unsigned long value;
@@ -202,10 +211,8 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
        cpu = get_cpu();
 
-       if (vcpu->cpu != cpu) {
-               smp_call_function(__vcpu_clear, vcpu, 0, 1);
-               vcpu->launched = 0;
-       }
+       if (vcpu->cpu != cpu)
+               vcpu_clear(vcpu);
 
        if (per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) != vcpu->vmcs) {
                u8 error;