Re: [PATCH 04/24] KVM: Provide current CPL as part of emulator context.

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On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:24:45PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/09/2010 04:09 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >Eliminate the need to call back into KVM to get it from emulator.
> >
> >
> >@@ -3499,6 +3499,7 @@ int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >
> >  		vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.vcpu = vcpu;
> >  		vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.eflags = kvm_x86_ops->get_rflags(vcpu);
> >+		vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.cpl = kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(vcpu);
> >  		vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.mode =
> >  			(!is_protmode(vcpu)) ? X86EMUL_MODE_REAL :
> >  			(vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.eflags&  X86_EFLAGS_VM)
> 
> This is an unconditional VMREAD, which is slow (extra slow if
> nested).  Most common emulator ops do not need the cpl.
> 
Will have to make it one of x86_emulate_ops callback then.

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			Gleb.
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