Hi, This is a successor to the previous patch set [1] from Jason Baron, which converts kvm_pmu_ops to use static_call. A typical perf use case [2] for an Intel guest shows good performance gains (results are in patch 0004). V2 -> V3 Changelog: - Refine commit messages for __initdata; (Sean) - Merge the logic of _defining_ and _update_; (Sean) - Drop EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_pmu_ops); (Sean) - Drop the _NULL() variant in the kvm-x86-*-ops.h; (Thanks to Paolo and Sean) - Drop to export kvm_pmu_is_valid_msr() for nVMX; (Thanks to Sean) - Based on the kvm/queue; V1 -> V2 Changelog: - Export kvm_pmu_is_valid_msr() for nVMX [Sean] - Land memcpy() above kvm_ops_static_call_update() [Sean] - Move the pmu_ops to kvm_x86_init_ops and tagged as __initdata. [Sean] - Move the kvm_ops_static_call_update() to x86.c [Sean] - Drop kvm_pmu_ops_static_call_update() [Sean] - Fix WARNING that macros KVM_X86_OP should not use a trailing semicolon Please note checkpatch.pl complains a lot about KVM_X86_*_OP macros: - WARNING: macros should not use a trailing semicolon - ERROR: Macros with multiple statements should be enclosed in a do - while loop which could be addressed as a one-time follow-up if needed. Previous: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20211108111032.24457-1-likexu@xxxxxxxxxxx/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1610680941.git.jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] perf record -e branch-instructions -e branch-misses \ -e cache-misses -e cache-references -e cpu-cycles \ -e instructions ./workload Thanks, Like Xu (4): KVM: x86: Move kvm_ops_static_call_update() to x86.c KVM: x86: Copy kvm_pmu_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection KVM: x86: Move .pmu_ops to kvm_x86_init_ops and tag as __initdata KVM: x86: Use static calls to reduce kvm_pmu_ops overhead arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-pmu-ops.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 17 +-------- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 48 +++++++++++++++----------- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 9 ++++- arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 23 ++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-pmu-ops.h -- 2.35.1