On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:52:06AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > Hmm, that might work. Could we somehow nop that call when
> > !X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR?, that saves native from having to do the call
> > and would be a win for everyone.
>
> So in fact we want a "always false" shortcut for bare metal and for any
> virtualization environment selecting bare metal behavior.
>
> I'll have a try.
Right, so for native I think you can do this:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c
b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c
index 11aaf1eaa0e4..4e9839001291 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ DEF_NATIVE(, mov64, "mov %rdi, %rax");
#if defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS)
DEF_NATIVE(pv_lock_ops, queued_spin_unlock, "movb $0, (%rdi)");
DEF_NATIVE(pv_lock_ops, vcpu_is_preempted, "xor %rax, %rax");
+DEF_NATIVE(pv_lock_ops, virt_spin_lock, "xor %rax, %rax");
#endif
unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_32(void *insnbuf, unsigned len)
@@ -77,6 +78,13 @@ unsigned native_patch(u8 type, u16 clobbers, void *ibuf,
goto patch_site;
}
goto patch_default;
+ case PARAVIRT_PATCH(pv_lock_ops.virt_spin_lock):
+ if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) {
+ start = start_pv_lock_ops_virt_spin_lock;
+ end = end_pv_lock_ops_virt_spin_lock;
+ goto patch_side;
+ }
+ goto patch_default;
#endif
default:
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