On 27/09/19 23:45, Sean Christopherson wrote: > Rework vmx_set_rflags() to avoid the extra code need to handle emulation > of real mode and invalid state when unrestricted guest is disabled. The > primary reason for doing so is to avoid the call to vmx_get_rflags(), > which will incur a VMREAD when RFLAGS is not already available. When > running nested VMs, the majority of calls to vmx_set_rflags() will occur > without an associated vmx_get_rflags(), i.e. when stuffing GUEST_RFLAGS > during transitions between vmcs01 and vmcs02. > > Note, vmx_get_rflags() guarantees RFLAGS is marked available. Slightly nicer this way: diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index 8de9853d7ab6..62ab19d65efd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -1431,9 +1431,17 @@ unsigned long vmx_get_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) void vmx_set_rflags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long rflags) { struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); - unsigned long old_rflags = vmx_get_rflags(vcpu); + unsigned long old_rflags; + + if (enable_unrestricted_guest) { + __set_bit(VCPU_EXREG_RFLAGS, (ulong *)&vcpu->arch.regs_avail); + vmx->rflags = rflags; + vmcs_writel(GUEST_RFLAGS, rflags); + return; + } + + old_rflags = vmx_get_rflags(vcpu); - __set_bit(VCPU_EXREG_RFLAGS, (ulong *)&vcpu->arch.regs_avail); vmx->rflags = rflags; if (vmx->rmode.vm86_active) { vmx->rmode.save_rflags = rflags; Paolo