On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:26:06PM +0800, Zhichao Huang wrote:
> Avoid world-switching all the debug registers when neither the host
> nor the guest has configured any [WB]points.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhichao Huang <zhichao.hu...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S
> index b9e7410..7ad0adf 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S
> @@ -332,6 +332,21 @@ vcpu     .req    r0              @ vcpu pointer always 
> in r0
>       sub     r12, r2, r12            @ How many WPs to skip
>  .endm
>  

> +/* If VCPU_DEBUG_FLAGS is not set, it means that neither the host

For multi-line comments, can you please have the opening '/*' on a
separate line in keeping with the rest of these files?  Please change
this throughout the patch series (I think I've asked this before).

> + * nor the guest has configured any [WB]points.
> + *
> + * We avoid world-switching all the debug registers in that case.
> + *
> + * Assume vcpu pointer in vcpu reg
> + *
> + * clobbers r2
> + */
> +.macro skip_debug_state target
> +     ldr     r2, [vcpu, #VCPU_DEBUG_FLAGS]
> +     cmp     r2, #0
> +     beq     \target
> +.endm

But if the guest started using the registers and we're not trapping
accesses, then surely you need to store the values of the registers when
you come back from the guest, right?

Something about this feels weird.

> +
>  /* Reads cp14 registers from hardware.
>   * Writes cp14 registers in-order to the CP14 struct pointed to by r10
>   *
> @@ -340,12 +355,14 @@ vcpu    .req    r0              @ vcpu pointer always 
> in r0
>   * Clobbers r2-r12
>   */
>  .macro save_debug_state
> +     skip_debug_state 9999f
> +
>       read_hw_dbg_num
>       cp14_read_and_str r10, 4, cp14_DBGBVR0, r11
>       cp14_read_and_str r10, 5, cp14_DBGBCR0, r11
>       cp14_read_and_str r10, 6, cp14_DBGWVR0, r12
>       cp14_read_and_str r10, 7, cp14_DBGWCR0, r12
> -
> +9999:
>       /* DBGDSCR reg */
>       mrc     p14, 0, r2, c0, c1, 0
>       str     r2, [r10, #CP14_OFFSET(cp14_DBGDSCRext)]
> @@ -359,12 +376,14 @@ vcpu    .req    r0              @ vcpu pointer always 
> in r0
>   * Clobbers r2-r12
>   */
>  .macro restore_debug_state
> +     skip_debug_state 9999f
> +
>       read_hw_dbg_num
>       cp14_ldr_and_write r10, 4, cp14_DBGBVR0, r11
>       cp14_ldr_and_write r10, 5, cp14_DBGBCR0, r11
>       cp14_ldr_and_write r10, 6, cp14_DBGWVR0, r12
>       cp14_ldr_and_write r10, 7, cp14_DBGWCR0, r12
> -
> +9999:
>       /* DBGDSCR reg */
>       ldr     r2, [r10, #CP14_OFFSET(cp14_DBGDSCRext)]
>       mcr     p14, 0, r2, c0, c2, 2
> -- 
> 1.7.12.4
> 
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