Re: [PATCH v2] x86/shim: Simplify compat handling in write_start_info()

2021-04-21 Thread Jan Beulich
On 20.04.2021 19:41, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Factor out a compat boolean to remove the lfence overhead from multiple
> is_pv_32bit_domain() calls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper 
> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich 
> CC: Roger Pau Monné 
> CC: Wei Liu 
> 
> v2:
>  * Reinstate the conditional for the start info pointer, in case Intel/AMD
>can't be persuaded to adjust the architectural guarentees for upper bits in
>compatibility mode transitions.

As indicated before, with this adjustment
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich 

Jan



[PATCH v2] x86/shim: Simplify compat handling in write_start_info()

2021-04-20 Thread Andrew Cooper
Factor out a compat boolean to remove the lfence overhead from multiple
is_pv_32bit_domain() calls.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper 
---
CC: Jan Beulich 
CC: Roger Pau Monné 
CC: Wei Liu 

v2:
 * Reinstate the conditional for the start info pointer, in case Intel/AMD
   can't be persuaded to adjust the architectural guarentees for upper bits in
   compatibility mode transitions.
---
 xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c | 8 
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c b/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
index d16c0048c0..4c6f442274 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
@@ -280,12 +280,12 @@ void __init pv_shim_setup_dom(struct domain *d, 
l4_pgentry_t *l4start,
 static void write_start_info(struct domain *d)
 {
 struct cpu_user_regs *regs = guest_cpu_user_regs();
-start_info_t *si = map_domain_page(_mfn(is_pv_32bit_domain(d) ? regs->edx
-  : 
regs->rdx));
+bool compat = is_pv_32bit_domain(d);
+start_info_t *si = map_domain_page(_mfn(compat ? regs->edx : regs->rdx));
 uint64_t param;
 
 snprintf(si->magic, sizeof(si->magic), "xen-3.0-x86_%s",
- is_pv_32bit_domain(d) ? "32p" : "64");
+ compat ? "32p" : "64");
 si->nr_pages = domain_tot_pages(d);
 si->shared_info = virt_to_maddr(d->shared_info);
 si->flags = 0;
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static void write_start_info(struct domain *d)
   >console.domU.mfn) )
 BUG();
 
-if ( is_pv_32bit_domain(d) )
+if ( compat )
 xlat_start_info(si, XLAT_start_info_console_domU);
 
 unmap_domain_page(si);
-- 
2.11.0