From: Liu Yu-B13201 <[email protected]>

Currently we patch the whole code include paravirt template code.
This isn't safe for scratch area and has impact to performance.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c      |   11 ++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c
index 04d4b5a..62bdf23 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -665,6 +665,9 @@ static void kvm_check_ins(u32 *inst, u32 features)
        }
 }
 
+extern u32 kvm_template_start[];
+extern u32 kvm_template_end[];
+
 static void kvm_use_magic_page(void)
 {
        u32 *p;
@@ -692,8 +695,14 @@ static void kvm_use_magic_page(void)
         */
        local_irq_disable();
 
-       for (p = start; p < end; p++)
+       for (p = start; p < end; p++) {
+               /* Avoid patching the template code */
+               if (p >= kvm_template_start && p < kvm_template_end) {
+                       p = kvm_template_end - 1;
+                       continue;
+               }
                kvm_check_ins(p, features);
+       }
 
        local_irq_enable();
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
index 801058d..e291cf3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ kvm_hypercall_start:
           shared->critical == r1 and r2 is always != r1 */             \
        STL64(r2, KVM_MAGIC_PAGE + KVM_MAGIC_CRITICAL, 0);
 
+.global kvm_template_start
+kvm_template_start:
+
 .global kvm_emulate_mtmsrd
 kvm_emulate_mtmsrd:
 
@@ -350,3 +353,6 @@ kvm_emulate_mtsrin_orig_ins_offs:
 .global kvm_emulate_mtsrin_len
 kvm_emulate_mtsrin_len:
        .long (kvm_emulate_mtsrin_end - kvm_emulate_mtsrin) / 4
+
+.global kvm_template_end
+kvm_template_end:
-- 
1.6.0.2

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