[PATCH 0/4] Lightweight svm vmload/vmsave (almost)

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This patchset moves svm towards a lightweight vmload/vmsave path.  It was
hindered by CVE-2010-3698 which was discovered during its development, and
by the lack of per-cpu IDT in Linux, which makes it more or less useless.
However, even so it's a slight improvement, and merging it will reduce the
work needed when we do have per-cpu IDT.

Avi Kivity (4):
  KVM: SVM: Move guest register save out of interrupts disabled section
  KVM: SVM: Move svm->host_gs_base into a separate structure
  KVM: SVM: Move fs/gs/ldt save/restore to heavyweight exit path
  KVM: SVM: Fold save_host_msrs() and load_host_msrs() into their
    callers

 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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1.7.3.1

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