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KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:36:17 +0000 (11:36 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:18:01 +0000 (19:18 +0300)
commitafc2330afedf033fea659ea2cac11df975933b11
tree130dcb08868586e46ad6ad488dd4ba0e219f90c2
parent697af409cc557416c31f7cc5ce55a4a3b059bdb7
KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory

Architecturally, PDPTEs are cached in the PDPTRs when CR3 is reloaded.
On SVM, it is not possible to implement this, but on VMX this is possible
and was indeed implemented until nested SVM changed this to unconditionally
read PDPTEs dynamically.  This has noticable impact when running PAE guests.

Fix by changing the MMU to read PDPTRs from the cache, falling back to
reading from memory for the nested MMU.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c