Re: [PATCH 4/9] KVM: x86: Avoid double CPUID lookup when updating MWAIT at runtime

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Sun Nov 19 2023 - 12:33:12 EST


On Fri, 2023-11-10 at 15:55 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Move the handling of X86_FEATURE_MWAIT during CPUID runtime updates to
> utilize the lookup done for other CPUID.0x1 features.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 13 +++++--------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 5cf3d697ecb3..6777780be6ae 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -276,6 +276,11 @@ static void __kvm_update_cpuid_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_cpuid_e
>
> cpuid_entry_change(best, X86_FEATURE_APIC,
> vcpu->arch.apic_base & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE);
> +
> + if (!kvm_check_has_quirk(vcpu->kvm, KVM_X86_QUIRK_MISC_ENABLE_NO_MWAIT))
> + cpuid_entry_change(best, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT,
> + vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr &
> + MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_MWAIT);
> }
>
> best = cpuid_entry2_find(entries, nent, 7, 0);
> @@ -296,14 +301,6 @@ static void __kvm_update_cpuid_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_cpuid_e
> if (kvm_hlt_in_guest(vcpu->kvm) && best &&
> (best->eax & (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT)))
> best->eax &= ~(1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT);
> -
> - if (!kvm_check_has_quirk(vcpu->kvm, KVM_X86_QUIRK_MISC_ENABLE_NO_MWAIT)) {
> - best = cpuid_entry2_find(entries, nent, 0x1, KVM_CPUID_INDEX_NOT_SIGNIFICANT);
> - if (best)
> - cpuid_entry_change(best, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT,
> - vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr &
> - MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_MWAIT);
> - }
> }
>
> void kvm_update_cpuid_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky