KVM: VMX: Add support for Pause-Loop Exiting

New NHM processors will support Pause-Loop Exiting by adding 2 VM-execution
control fields:
PLE_Gap    - upper bound on the amount of time between two successive
             executions of PAUSE in a loop.
PLE_Window - upper bound on the amount of time a guest is allowed to execute in
             a PAUSE loop

If the time, between this execution of PAUSE and previous one, exceeds the
PLE_Gap, processor consider this PAUSE belongs to a new loop.
Otherwise, processor determins the the total execution time of this loop(since
1st PAUSE in this loop), and triggers a VM exit if total time exceeds the
PLE_Window.
* Refer SDM volume 3b section 21.6.13 & 22.1.3.

Pause-Loop Exiting can be used to detect Lock-Holder Preemption, where one VP
is sched-out after hold a spinlock, then other VPs for same lock are sched-in
to waste the CPU time.

Our tests indicate that most spinlocks are held for less than 212 cycles.
Performance tests show that with 2X LP over-commitment we can get +2% perf
improvement for kernel build(Even more perf gain with more LPs).

Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
index 272514c2d456..2b4945419a84 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 #define SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_VPID              0x00000020
 #define SECONDARY_EXEC_WBINVD_EXITING           0x00000040
 #define SECONDARY_EXEC_UNRESTRICTED_GUEST       0x00000080
+#define SECONDARY_EXEC_PAUSE_LOOP_EXITING       0x00000400
 
 
 #define PIN_BASED_EXT_INTR_MASK                 0x00000001
@@ -144,6 +145,8 @@ enum vmcs_field {
         VM_ENTRY_INSTRUCTION_LEN        = 0x0000401a,
         TPR_THRESHOLD                   = 0x0000401c,
         SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL       = 0x0000401e,
+        PLE_GAP                         = 0x00004020,
+        PLE_WINDOW                      = 0x00004022,
         VM_INSTRUCTION_ERROR            = 0x00004400,
         VM_EXIT_REASON                  = 0x00004402,
         VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO               = 0x00004404,
@@ -248,6 +251,7 @@ enum vmcs_field {
 #define EXIT_REASON_MSR_READ            31
 #define EXIT_REASON_MSR_WRITE           32
 #define EXIT_REASON_MWAIT_INSTRUCTION   36
+#define EXIT_REASON_PAUSE_INSTRUCTION   40
 #define EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY   41
 #define EXIT_REASON_TPR_BELOW_THRESHOLD 43
 #define EXIT_REASON_APIC_ACCESS         44