Re: Thoughts of AMX KVM support based on latest kernel

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/16/21 21:36, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>            local_irq_enable();     <- Problem starts here
>
>            preempt_enable();	   <- Becomes wider here
>
> > It doesn't become that much wider because there's always preempt
> > notifiers.  So if it's okay to save XFD in the XSAVES wrapper and in
> > kvm_arch_vcpu_put(), that might be already remove the need to do it
> > schedule().
>
> Did not think about preemption notifiers. Probably because I hate
> notifiers with a passion since I had to deal with the CPU hotplug
> notifier trainwreck.
>
> But yes that would work. So the places to do that would be:
>
> 1) kvm_sched_out() -> kvm_arch_vcpu_put() > 2) kernel_fpu_begin_mask()

... which calls save_fpregs_to_fpstate

> 3) kvm_put_guest_fpu()

... which calls save_fpregs_to_fpstate via fpu_swap_kvm_fpstate

So perhaps it could be done in save_fpregs_to_fpstate (for the sched out 
path, it would be called by switch_fpu_prepare()).  But for now I would 
also start with the trivial version.

> I'd be really surprised if that RDMSR is truly noticeable within all the
> other crud this path is doing.

I agree.

Paolo