The host kernel's exception vector base address is currently saved in the VCPU structure at creation time, and restored on a guest exit. However it doesn't change and can already be easily accessed from the 'ebase' variable (arch/mips/kernel/traps.c), so drop the host_ebase member of kvm_vcpu_arch, export the 'ebase' variable to modules and load from there instead. This does result in a single extra instruction (lui) on the guest exit path, but simplifies the code a bit and removes the redundant storage of the host exception base address. Credit for the idea goes to Cavium's VZ KVM implementation. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 - arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 1 + arch/mips/kvm/locore.S | 2 +- arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 3 --- 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h index f68293b4a598..24a8e557db88 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ struct kvm_mips_tlb { #define KVM_MIPS_GUEST_TLB_SIZE 64 struct kvm_vcpu_arch { - void *host_ebase, *guest_ebase; + void *guest_ebase; int (*vcpu_run)(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); unsigned long host_stack; unsigned long host_gp; diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c index 420808899c70..a1263d188a5a 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c @@ -355,7 +355,6 @@ void output_kvm_defines(void) OFFSET(VCPU_RUN, kvm_vcpu, run); OFFSET(VCPU_HOST_ARCH, kvm_vcpu, arch); - OFFSET(VCPU_HOST_EBASE, kvm_vcpu_arch, host_ebase); OFFSET(VCPU_GUEST_EBASE, kvm_vcpu_arch, guest_ebase); OFFSET(VCPU_HOST_STACK, kvm_vcpu_arch, host_stack); diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c index 4a1712b5abdf..66e5820bfdae 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c @@ -1859,6 +1859,7 @@ void __noreturn nmi_exception_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) #define VECTORSPACING 0x100 /* for EI/VI mode */ unsigned long ebase; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ebase); unsigned long exception_handlers[32]; unsigned long vi_handlers[64]; diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S b/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S index 43c8ef847efa..f87bec546366 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/locore.S @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ NESTED (MIPSX(GuestException), CALLFRAME_SIZ, ra) mtc0 k0, CP0_STATUS ehb - LONG_L k0, VCPU_HOST_EBASE(k1) + LONG_L k0, ebase mtc0 k0,CP0_EBASE /* diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c index c1ab6110ca1d..6e753761b5d6 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c @@ -273,9 +273,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) else size = 0x4000; - /* Save Linux EBASE */ - vcpu->arch.host_ebase = (void *)read_c0_ebase(); - gebase = kzalloc(ALIGN(size, PAGE_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL); if (!gebase) { -- 2.4.10 -- 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