Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: KVM: Save four instructions in __guest_enter/exit()

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Hi Marc,


On 08/30/2016 05:54 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 30/08/16 10:55, Christoffer Dall wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:51:14PM -0500, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
We are doing an unnecessary stack push/pop operation when restoring
the guest registers x0-x18 in __guest_enter(). This patch saves the
two instructions by using x18 as a base register. No need to store
the vcpu context pointer in stack because it is redundant, the same
information is available in tpidr_el2. The function __guest_exit()
prototype is simplified and caller pushes the regs x0-x1 to stack
instead of regs x0-x3.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This looks reasonable to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Unless Marc has any insight into this having a negative effect on ARM
CPUs, I'll go ahead an merge this.
I've given it a go on Seattle, and couldn't observe any difference with
the original code, which is pretty good news!

I have some comments below, though:

-Christoffer

---
Changes since v1:
   Incorporated Cristoffer suggestions.
   __guest_exit prototype is changed to 'void __guest_exit(u64 reason,
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)'.
  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S     | 101
+++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S |  11 +++--
  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
index ce9e5e5..f70489a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
@@ -55,75 +55,76 @@
   */
  ENTRY(__guest_enter)
  	// x0: vcpu
-	// x1: host/guest context
-	// x2-x18: clobbered by macros
+	// x1: host context
+	// x2-x17: clobbered by macros
+	// x18: guest context
// Store the host regs
  	save_callee_saved_regs x1
- // Preserve vcpu & host_ctxt for use at exit time
-	stp	x0, x1, [sp, #-16]!
+	// Store the host_ctxt for use at exit time
+	str	x1, [sp, #-16]!
- add x1, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT
+	add	x18, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT
- // Prepare x0-x1 for later restore by pushing them onto the stack
-	ldp	x2, x3, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(0)]
-	stp	x2, x3, [sp, #-16]!
+	// Restore guest regs x0-x17
+	ldp	x0, x1,   [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(0)]
+	ldp	x2, x3,   [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(2)]
+	ldp	x4, x5,   [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(4)]
+	ldp	x6, x7,   [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(6)]
+	ldp	x8, x9,   [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(8)]
+	ldp	x10, x11, [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(10)]
+	ldp	x12, x13, [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(12)]
+	ldp	x14, x15, [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(14)]
+	ldp	x16, x17, [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(16)]
- // x2-x18
-	ldp	x2, x3,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(2)]
-	ldp	x4, x5,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(4)]
-	ldp	x6, x7,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(6)]
-	ldp	x8, x9,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(8)]
-	ldp	x10, x11, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(10)]
-	ldp	x12, x13, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(12)]
-	ldp	x14, x15, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(14)]
-	ldp	x16, x17, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(16)]
-	ldr	x18,      [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(18)]
+	// Restore guest regs x19-x29, lr
+	restore_callee_saved_regs x18
- // x19-x29, lr
-	restore_callee_saved_regs x1
-
-	// Last bits of the 64bit state
-	ldp	x0, x1, [sp], #16
+	// Restore guest reg x18
+	ldr	x18,      [x18, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(18)]
// Do not touch any register after this!
  	eret
  ENDPROC(__guest_enter)
+/*
+ * void __guest_exit(u64 exit_reason, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+ */
I'm not sure this comment makes much sense as it stands. This is not a C
function by any stretch of the imagination, but the continuation of
__guest_enter. The calling convention is not the C one at all (see how
the stack is involved), and caller-saved registers are going to be
clobbered.

I'll remove this confusing comments.

  ENTRY(__guest_exit)
-	// x0: vcpu
-	// x1: return code
-	// x2-x3: free
-	// x4-x29,lr: vcpu regs
-	// vcpu x0-x3 on the stack
-
-	add	x2, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT
-
-	stp	x4, x5,   [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(4)]
-	stp	x6, x7,   [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(6)]
-	stp	x8, x9,   [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(8)]
-	stp	x10, x11, [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(10)]
-	stp	x12, x13, [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(12)]
-	stp	x14, x15, [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(14)]
-	stp	x16, x17, [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(16)]
-	str	x18,      [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(18)]
-
-	ldp	x6, x7, [sp], #16	// x2, x3
-	ldp	x4, x5, [sp], #16	// x0, x1
-
-	stp	x4, x5, [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(0)]
-	stp	x6, x7, [x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(2)]
+	// x0: return code
+	// x1: vcpu
+	// x2-x29,lr: vcpu regs
+	// vcpu x0-x1 on the stack
+
+	add	x1, x1, #VCPU_CONTEXT
+
+	// Store the guest regs x2 and x3
+	stp	x2, x3,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(2)]
+
+	// Retrieve the guest regs x0-x1 from the stack
+	ldp	x2, x3, [sp], #16	// x0, x1
+
+	// Store the guest regs x0-x1 and x4-x18
+	stp	x2, x3,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(0)]
+	stp	x4, x5,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(4)]
+	stp	x6, x7,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(6)]
+	stp	x8, x9,   [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(8)]
+	stp	x10, x11, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(10)]
+	stp	x12, x13, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(12)]
+	stp	x14, x15, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(14)]
+	stp	x16, x17, [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(16)]
+	str	x18,      [x1, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(18)]
+
+	// Store the guest regs x19-x29, lr
+	save_callee_saved_regs x1
- save_callee_saved_regs x2
+	// Restore the host_ctxt from the stack
+	ldr	x2, [sp], #16
- // Restore vcpu & host_ctxt from the stack
-	// (preserving return code in x1)
-	ldp	x0, x2, [sp], #16
  	// Now restore the host regs
  	restore_callee_saved_regs x2
- mov x0, x1
  	ret
  ENDPROC(__guest_exit)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
index f6d9694..06e8b3b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
@@ -121,14 +121,15 @@ el1_trap:
  	cmp	x2, #ESR_ELx_EC_FP_ASIMD
  	b.eq	__fpsimd_guest_restore
- mrs x0, tpidr_el2
-	mov	x1, #ARM_EXCEPTION_TRAP
+	ldp     x2, x3, [sp], #16
+	mrs	x1, tpidr_el2
+	mov	x0, #ARM_EXCEPTION_TRAP
  	b	__guest_exit
el1_irq:
-	save_x0_to_x3
So the save_x0_to_x3 macro now only has one single user (and so does
restore_x0_to_x3).  Should we consider inline it?

Sure, I'll change to inline in v3 patch.

-	mrs	x0, tpidr_el2
-	mov	x1, #ARM_EXCEPTION_IRQ
+	stp     x0, x1, [sp, #-16]!
+	mrs	x1, tpidr_el2
+	mov	x0, #ARM_EXCEPTION_IRQ
  	b	__guest_exit
ENTRY(__hyp_do_panic)
--
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Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
Thanks,

	M.

--
Shanker Donthineni
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