Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: Copy kvm_pmu_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection

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On 5/11/2021 11:30 pm, Sean Christopherson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021, Like Xu wrote:
Replace the kvm_pmu_ops pointer in common x86 with an instance of the
struct to save one pointer dereference when invoking functions. Copy the
struct by value to set the ops during kvm_init().

Using kvm_x86_ops.hardware_enable to track whether or not the
ops have been initialized, i.e. a vendor KVM module has been loaded.

Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c        | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
  arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h        |  4 +++-
  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c |  2 +-
  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c        |  3 +++
  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
index 0772bad9165c..0db1887137d9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
   *        * AMD:   [0 .. AMD64_NUM_COUNTERS-1] <=> gp counters
   */
+struct kvm_pmu_ops kvm_pmu_ops __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_pmu_ops);
+

...

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index b4ee5e9f9e20..1e793e44b5ff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -4796,7 +4796,7 @@ void nested_vmx_pmu_entry_exit_ctls_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
  		return;
vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
-	if (kvm_x86_ops.pmu_ops->is_valid_msr(vcpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL)) {
+	if (kvm_pmu_ops.is_valid_msr(vcpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL)) {

I would much prefer we export kvm_pmu_is_valid_msr() and go through that for nVMX
than export all of kvm_pmu_ops for this one case.

Applied. Is it an abuse to export a function for only one case ?


  		vmx->nested.msrs.entry_ctls_high |=
  				VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL;
  		vmx->nested.msrs.exit_ctls_high |=
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index ac83d873d65b..72d286595012 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -11317,6 +11317,9 @@ int kvm_arch_hardware_setup(void *opaque)
  	memcpy(&kvm_x86_ops, ops->runtime_ops, sizeof(kvm_x86_ops));
  	kvm_ops_static_call_update();
+ if (kvm_x86_ops.hardware_enable)

Huh?  Did you intend this to be?

	if (kvm_x86_ops.pmu_ops)

Either way, I don't see the point, VMX and SVM unconditionally provide the ops.

Let me drop it.


I would also say land this memcpy() above kvm_ops_static_call_update(), then the
enabling patch can do the static call updates in kvm_ops_static_call_update()
instead of adding another helper.

Both applied.


+		memcpy(&kvm_pmu_ops, kvm_x86_ops.pmu_ops, sizeof(kvm_pmu_ops));

As part of this change, the pmu_ops should be moved to kvm_x86_init_ops and tagged
as __initdata.  That'll save those precious few bytes, and more importantly make
the original ops unreachable, i.e. make it harder to sneak in post-init modification
bugs.

Applied. Opportunistically,

-struct kvm_pmu_ops [amd|intel]_pmu_ops = {
+struct kvm_pmu_ops [amd|intel]_pmu_ops __initdata = {


+
  	if (!kvm_cpu_cap_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES))
  		supported_xss = 0;
--
2.33.0





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