On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:10:38PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > Since enabling paravirt spinlock will disable unlock function inlining, > a jump label can be added to the unlock function without adding patch > sites all over the kernel. But you don't have to. My patches allowed for the inline to remain, again reducing the overhead of enabling PV spinlocks while running on a real machine. Look at: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140615130154.213923590@xxxxxxxxx In particular this hunk: Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ DEF_NATIVE(pv_cpu_ops, swapgs, "swapgs") DEF_NATIVE(, mov32, "mov %edi, %eax"); DEF_NATIVE(, mov64, "mov %rdi, %rax"); +#if defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) && defined(CONFIG_QUEUE_SPINLOCK) +DEF_NATIVE(pv_lock_ops, queue_unlock, "movb $0, (%rdi)"); +#endif + unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_32(void *insnbuf, unsigned len) { return paravirt_patch_insns(insnbuf, len, @@ -61,6 +65,9 @@ unsigned native_patch(u8 type, u16 clobb PATCH_SITE(pv_cpu_ops, clts); PATCH_SITE(pv_mmu_ops, flush_tlb_single); PATCH_SITE(pv_cpu_ops, wbinvd); +#if defined(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) && defined(CONFIG_QUEUE_SPINLOCK) + PATCH_SITE(pv_lock_ops, queue_unlock); +#endif patch_site: ret = paravirt_patch_insns(ibuf, len, start, end); That makes sure to overwrite the callee-saved call to the pv_lock_ops::queue_unlock with the immediate asm "movb $0, (%rdi)". Therefore you can retain the inlined unlock with hardly (there might be some NOP padding) any overhead at all. On PV it reverts to a callee saved function call. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
