Use try_cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg64 (*ptr, old, new) != old in
fast_pf_fix_direct_spte. cmpxchg returns success in ZF flag, so this
change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction
in front of cmpxchg).
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Message-Id: <
20220520144635.63134-1-ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
*
* Compare with set_spte where instead shadow_dirty_mask is set.
*/
- if (cmpxchg64(sptep, old_spte, new_spte) != old_spte)
+ if (!try_cmpxchg64(sptep, &old_spte, new_spte))
return false;
if (is_writable_pte(new_spte) && !is_writable_pte(old_spte))