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authorChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>2017-10-08 17:01:56 +0200
committerMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>2018-03-19 10:53:09 +0000
commit4464e210de9e80e38de59df052fe09ea2ff80b1b (patch)
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parentKVM: arm/arm64: Move vcpu_load call after kvm_vcpu_first_run_init (diff)
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KVM: arm64: Avoid storing the vcpu pointer on the stack
We already have the percpu area for the host cpu state, which points to the VCPU, so there's no need to store the VCPU pointer on the stack on every context switch. We can be a little more clever and just use tpidr_el2 for the percpu offset and load the VCPU pointer from the host context. This has the benefit of being able to retrieve the host context even when our stack is corrupted, and it has a potential performance benefit because we trade a store plus a load for an mrs and a load on a round trip to the guest. This does require us to calculate the percpu offset without including the offset from the kernel mapping of the percpu array to the linear mapping of the array (which is what we store in tpidr_el1), because a PC-relative generated address in EL2 is already giving us the hyp alias of the linear mapping of a kernel address. We do this in __cpu_init_hyp_mode() by using kvm_ksym_ref(). The code that accesses ESR_EL2 was previously using an alternative to use the _EL1 accessor on VHE systems, but this was actually unnecessary as the _EL1 accessor aliases the ESR_EL2 register on VHE, and the _EL2 accessor does the same thing on both systems. Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
index fdd1068ee3a5..1f458f7c3b44 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
@@ -62,9 +62,6 @@ ENTRY(__guest_enter)
// Store the host regs
save_callee_saved_regs x1
- // Store host_ctxt and vcpu for use at exit time
- stp x1, x0, [sp, #-16]!
-
add x18, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT
// Restore guest regs x0-x17
@@ -118,8 +115,7 @@ ENTRY(__guest_exit)
// Store the guest regs x19-x29, lr
save_callee_saved_regs x1
- // Restore the host_ctxt from the stack
- ldr x2, [sp], #16
+ get_host_ctxt x2, x3
// Now restore the host regs
restore_callee_saved_regs x2