RE: [PATCH v3] kvm/fpu: Enable fully eager restore kvm FPU

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Marcelo Tosatti
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 12:29 AM
> To: Hao, Xudong; Avi Kivity
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Zhang, Xiantao
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kvm/fpu: Enable fully eager restore kvm FPU
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:26:36PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:10:24PM +0800, Xudong Hao wrote:
> > > Enable KVM FPU fully eager restore, if there is other FPU state which isn't
> > > tracked by CR0.TS bit.
> > >
> > > v3 changes from v2:
> > > - Make fpu active explicitly while guest xsave is enabling and non-lazy xstate
> bit
> > > exist.
> >
> > How about a "guest_xcr0_can_lazy_saverestore" bool to control this?
> > It only needs to be updated when guest xcr0 is updated.
> >
> > That seems cleaner. Avi?
> 
> Reasoning below.
> 
> > > v2 changes from v1:
> > > - Expand KVM_XSTATE_LAZY to 64 bits before negating it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h |    4 ++++
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c         |    2 ++
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c         |   15 ++++++++++++++-
> > >  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h
> > > index 521bf25..4c27056 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h
> > > @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
> > >
> > >  #include <linux/types.h>
> > >  #include <linux/ioctl.h>
> > > +#include <asm/user.h>
> > > +#include <asm/xsave.h>
> > >
> > >  /* Select x86 specific features in <linux/kvm.h> */
> > >  #define __KVM_HAVE_PIT
> > > @@ -30,6 +32,8 @@
> > >  /* Architectural interrupt line count. */
> > >  #define KVM_NR_INTERRUPTS 256
> > >
> > > +#define KVM_XSTATE_LAZY	(XSTATE_FP | XSTATE_SSE | XSTATE_YMM)
> > > +
> > >  struct kvm_memory_alias {
> > >  	__u32 slot;  /* this has a different namespace than memory slots */
> > >  	__u32 flags;
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > > index 248c2b4..853e875 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > > @@ -3028,6 +3028,8 @@ static void vmx_set_cr0(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> unsigned long cr0)
> > >
> > >  	if (!vcpu->fpu_active)
> > >  		hw_cr0 |= X86_CR0_TS | X86_CR0_MP;
> > > +	else
> > > +		hw_cr0 &= ~(X86_CR0_TS | X86_CR0_MP);
> > >
> > >  	vmcs_writel(CR0_READ_SHADOW, cr0);
> > >  	vmcs_writel(GUEST_CR0, hw_cr0);
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > > index 20f2266..183cf60 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > > @@ -560,6 +560,8 @@ int __kvm_set_xcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32
> index, u64 xcr)
> > >  		return 1;
> > >  	if (xcr0 & ~host_xcr0)
> > >  		return 1;
> > > +	if (xcr0 & ~((u64)KVM_XSTATE_LAZY))
> > > +		vcpu->fpu_active = 1;
> 
> This is confusing. The variable allows to decrease the number of places
> the decision is made.
> 

Hi, Marcelo, What does it mean?

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