KVM: VMX: VMCLEAR/VMPTRLD usage changes
authorDongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Tue, 11 May 2010 10:29:45 +0000 (18:29 +0800)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 1 Aug 2010 07:35:42 +0000 (10:35 +0300)
Originally VMCLEAR/VMPTRLD is called on vcpu migration. To
support hosted VMM coexistance, VMCLEAR is executed on vcpu
schedule out, and VMPTRLD is executed on vcpu schedule in.
This could also eliminate the IPI when doing VMCLEAR.

Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

index 0d281dbc008f9227227e39987b5b18c31971aa4c..9529bff042626f0eeb5e640a3a85413fa1199641 100644 (file)
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ module_param_named(unrestricted_guest,
 static int __read_mostly emulate_invalid_guest_state = 0;
 module_param(emulate_invalid_guest_state, bool, S_IRUGO);
 
+static int __read_mostly vmm_exclusive = 1;
+module_param(vmm_exclusive, bool, S_IRUGO);
+
 #define KVM_GUEST_CR0_MASK_UNRESTRICTED_GUEST                          \
        (X86_CR0_WP | X86_CR0_NE | X86_CR0_NW | X86_CR0_CD)
 #define KVM_GUEST_CR0_MASK                                             \
@@ -845,7 +848,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
        struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
        u64 tsc_this, delta, new_offset;
 
-       if (vcpu->cpu != cpu)
+       if (vmm_exclusive && vcpu->cpu != cpu)
                vcpu_clear(vmx);
 
        if (per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) != vmx->vmcs) {
@@ -891,6 +894,8 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 static void vmx_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
        __vmx_load_host_state(to_vmx(vcpu));
+       if (!vmm_exclusive)
+               __vcpu_clear(to_vmx(vcpu));
 }
 
 static void vmx_fpu_activate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)