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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-05-15 10:13:12 -0400
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-07-12 04:45:00 -0400
commit5e520e62787afd8fc28626fd8d4f77491135119d (patch)
tree44641116820afb0b14f05ce643889c60ed024dab /arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
parent7b105ca2903b84f023c49965d9a511c5e55256dc (diff)
KVM: VMX: Move VMREAD cleanup to exception handler
We clean up a failed VMREAD by clearing the output register. Do it in the exception handler instead of unconditionally. This is worthwhile since there are more than a hundred call sites. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index d48ec60ea421..7d22d6c6734d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
43#include "trace.h" 43#include "trace.h"
44 44
45#define __ex(x) __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot(x) 45#define __ex(x) __kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot(x)
46#define __ex_clear(x, reg) \
47 ____kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot(x, "xor " reg " , " reg)
46 48
47MODULE_AUTHOR("Qumranet"); 49MODULE_AUTHOR("Qumranet");
48MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); 50MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
@@ -587,10 +589,10 @@ static inline void ept_sync_individual_addr(u64 eptp, gpa_t gpa)
587 589
588static unsigned long vmcs_readl(unsigned long field) 590static unsigned long vmcs_readl(unsigned long field)
589{ 591{
590 unsigned long value = 0; 592 unsigned long value;
591 593
592 asm volatile (__ex(ASM_VMX_VMREAD_RDX_RAX) 594 asm volatile (__ex_clear(ASM_VMX_VMREAD_RDX_RAX, "%0")
593 : "+a"(value) : "d"(field) : "cc"); 595 : "=a"(value) : "d"(field) : "cc");
594 return value; 596 return value;
595} 597}
596 598