Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] x86, lib, xenpv: Add WBNOINVD helper functions

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On 12/2/2024 5:44 PM, Kevin Loughlin wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 5:28 PM Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/12/2024 12:59 am, Kevin Loughlin wrote:
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index d4eb9e1d61b8..c040af2d8eff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ static __always_inline void wbinvd(void)
       PVOP_ALT_VCALL0(cpu.wbinvd, "wbinvd", ALT_NOT_XEN);
  }

+extern noinstr void pv_native_wbnoinvd(void);
+
+static __always_inline void wbnoinvd(void)
+{
+     PVOP_ALT_VCALL0(cpu.wbnoinvd, "wbnoinvd", ALT_NOT_XEN);
+}

Given this, ...

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
index fec381533555..a66b708d8a1e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -149,6 +154,7 @@ struct paravirt_patch_template pv_ops = {
       .cpu.write_cr0          = native_write_cr0,
       .cpu.write_cr4          = native_write_cr4,
       .cpu.wbinvd             = pv_native_wbinvd,
+     .cpu.wbnoinvd           = pv_native_wbnoinvd,
       .cpu.read_msr           = native_read_msr,
       .cpu.write_msr          = native_write_msr,
       .cpu.read_msr_safe      = native_read_msr_safe,

this, and ...

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
index d6818c6cafda..a5c76a6f8976 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,7 @@ static const typeof(pv_ops) xen_cpu_ops __initconst = {
               .write_cr4 = xen_write_cr4,

               .wbinvd = pv_native_wbinvd,
+             .wbnoinvd = pv_native_wbnoinvd,

               .read_msr = xen_read_msr,
               .write_msr = xen_write_msr,

this, what is the point having a paravirt hook which is wired to
native_wbnoinvd() in all cases?

That just seems like overhead for overhead sake.

I'm mirroring what's done for WBINVD here, which was changed to a
paravirt hook in 10a099405fdf ("cpuidle, xenpv: Make more PARAVIRT_XXL
noinstr clean") in order to avoid calls out to instrumented code as
described in the commit message in more detail. I believe a hook is
similarly required for WBNOINVD, but please let me know if you
disagree. Thanks!

Then the question is why we need to add WBINVD/WBNOINVD to the paravirt
hooks.




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